Perspectives on European cloud sovereignty, migration strategy, and the evolving regulatory landscape.
2026-08-06 · 4 min read
European cloud sovereignty moved into procurement, security operations and resilience this week. Dutch municipalities are defining government-cloud needs, STACKIT added a security layer, cloud spending reached a record, and ENISA set new priorities for a more consistent European approach.
Read the full article2026-08-04 · 8 min read
The EU plans up to seven AI gigafactories backed by major public investment. The promise includes access for smaller businesses, but direct use will suit only some. Here is how mid-sized European companies could benefit, what may limit access, and what they can do now.
Read the full article2026-07-30 · 4 min read
Orange and Atos moved sovereign infrastructure from positioning towards capacity and platforms, while EURO-3C began work on federation. Munich tied public-sector delivery to European control, and amended AI Act deadlines reshaped the compliance calendar.
Read the full article2026-07-27 · 8 min read
From 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act requires clearer notices for chatbots, machine-readable marking of synthetic content and labels for specified AI uses. A practical guide to identifying your role, checking systems and documenting the controls your company relies on.
Read the full article2026-07-23 · 4 min read
Microsoft and Mistral expanded European AI capacity, while the EU clarified AI transparency duties. A Google Cloud outage tested resilience, Gravitee and Clever Cloud targeted model portability, and AWS opened local compute and storage in Athens for Greek organisations.
Read the full article2026-07-20 · 8 min read
France's Health Data Hub is moving from Microsoft Azure to Scaleway after assessing more than 350 technical requirements. Its six-year path shows healthcare leaders how to assess jurisdiction, security, operational fit and reversibility before choosing a cloud.
Read the full article2026-07-16 · 3 min read
Airbus selected Scaleway for sovereign cloud workloads, while EU experts named compute and energy as Europe's urgent AI priorities. Germany's Soofi S put sovereign infrastructure to work, and Exoscale launched dedicated AI inference in European data centres.
Read the full article2026-07-14 · 7 min read
The European Commission believes AWS and Azure should become gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. What that could change for data access, interoperability and cloud contracts - and why regulation will not make a deeply connected cloud estate portable overnight.
Read the full article2026-07-09 · 3 min read
Brussels set the pace this fortnight: AWS and Azure were designated gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, and the Cloud and AI Development Act was formally proposed. Scality and OVHcloud launched a sovereign storage platform, and US security vendors joined the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Read the full article2026-07-07 · 6 min read
From 12 January 2027, EU law bans the fees cloud providers charge customers who leave, including data egress. What the Data Act's switching rules actually guarantee, where the real migration costs remain, and how the date changes the arithmetic for a company weighing a move now.
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