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 (aws.amazon.com/compliance/europe-digital-sover…)
• Azure European Sovereign Services (blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06/16/announcing…)
• Google Cloud Sovereign Cloud (cloud.google.com/sovereign-cloud)
• Red Hat Digital Sovereignty (redhat.com/en/products/digital-sovereignty)
• Broadcom Digital Sovereignty (news.broadcom.com/sovereign-cloud/three-predic…)
• Oracle Digital Sovereignty (oracle.com/cloud/digital-sovereignty)
• Digital Sovereignty in Europe, What’s the Plan B? (idc.com/resource-center/blog/digital-sovereign…) (IDC)
• Digital Commons EDIC Established (2025) (commons.ngi.eu/2025/12/15/digital-commons-edic…)
• EU AI Act (artificialintelligenceact.eu)
• “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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