The Rise of Digital Sovereignty

We take a listener question about digital sovereignty, tariffs and UK/EU independence from large US cloud providers, also Brian reaches out to the Melbourne, AUS listeners. 

SHOW: 998

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SHOW NOTES

• AWS European Sovereign Cloud 
• Azure European Sovereign Services
• Google Cloud Sovereign Cloud
• Red Hat Digital Sovereignty
• Broadcom Digital Sovereignty
• Oracle Digital Sovereignty
• Digital Sovereignty in Europe, What’s the Plan B? (IDC)
• Digital Commons EDIC Established (2025)
• EU AI Act
• “Sovereign Clouds and the Digital Sovereignty Imperative: Europe's Quest for Digital Independence” (IDC #EUR149098122, December 2022)
• The Evolution of Digital Sovereignty: Moving Beyond Data and Cloud” (Rahiel Nasir, IDC, January 13, 2023)

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY 

• What is the definition of Digital Sovereignty? What about Digital Assurance? 
• Sovereignty from who or what? 
• What laws are you attempting to comply with? How are they audited or measured? 
• Data Sovereignty - Maintaining control over how data is collected, classified, processed and stored to ensure that data regulations are met
• Technical Sovereignty - Running workloads without dependence on a provider’s infrastructure or software, and protected from all extra-territorial interference and scrutiny.
• Operational Sovereignty - Visibility and control over provider operations from provisioning and performance management, to monitoring of physical and digital access, to the infrastructure.
• Assurance Sovereignty -Ability to independently verify and assure the integrity, security, and reliability of digital systems and processes including resilience of critical services.

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