Available worldwide via Amazon (Kindle Edition)
US: $5.99
Other regions: Local Amazon pricing
Available here:
https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0GMXLX56T
Europe’s cloud future may not be defined by replicating hyperscalers, but by orchestrating them. In an era increasingly shaped by compute, resilience, optionality and strategic capacity may prove as important as scale itself. Success, perhaps, is not measured by dominance, but by preserving the freedom to adapt.
Digital sovereignty is often discussed after dependence has already emerged. Yet resilient infrastructures are rarely built through correction alone. They are designed from the outset to preserve choice, maintain adaptability and ensure that critical capabilities remain transferable, interoperable and resilient. Sovereignty, in this sense, becomes less an aspiration and more an architectural principle.
Governments have long approached cloud infrastructure as a procurement question. Increasingly, it may be becoming a matter of design. As compute capacity emerges as a strategic resource, states may no longer simply consume digital infrastructure, but help shape the environments upon which research, innovation, public services and economic resilience increasingly depend.
Cloud sovereignty is often framed as a choice between dependence and autonomy. Yet resilience may depend less on ownership alone and more on architecture itself. In an increasingly interconnected world, sovereignty may ultimately be the ability to preserve options, distribute risk and maintain control over what matters most.
Cloud sovereignty is often presented as a binary choice between dependence and autonomy. Yet resilience may depend less on ownership alone and more on architecture itself: understanding which functions require strategic control, which workloads benefit from scale and which capabilities societies simply cannot afford to lose.
