Is sovereign cloud a must-have in your Multi-cloud?

Organizations from across the globe are capitalizing on the multi-cloud for its flexibility, scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness. Research suggests around 85% of organizations are considering multiple clouds. A good percentage of those, 65% according to Pluralsight, are already operating a multi-cloud environment. Amid the rise of multi-cloud, the cloud thesaurus is also expanding to include newer cloud types and configurations, each responding to emerging challenges and technologies. One of the latest additions to the ever-expanding portfolio of cloud types is sovereign cloud.?

To address new laws and increasingly stringent sovereignty regulations, hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft have rushed to roll out their sovereign cloud offering. AWS lagged behind for a while, raising concerns regarding the legitimacy and urgency of the need for a dedicated sovereign cloud. However, AWS is now catching up with its rivals as it announced the impending launch of its European Sovereign Cloud, which will be physically and logically separated from the rest of its public cloud infrastructure.

Note that this comes shortly after the launch of AWS Dedicated Local Zones in August of this year, indicating that AWS is now shifting from its earlier approach to making its entire public cloud infrastructure “sovereign-by-design”. If anything, it highlights the mounting demand for a sovereign cloud with no strings attached — no multi-tenancy, no vendor dependency, and certainly no operational silos. With all key public cloud players on board, the impetus for a sovereign cloud is now irrefutable.?

Why Sovereign Cloud?

Data is an asset both for businesses and nations, and the amount of metadata Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) collect and hold is beyond imagination. This metadata includes information such as IP addresses, user credentials, logging and diagnostics reports, and more and is collected automatically in most cases, compelling most businesses to be complicit. However, now that the cloud is past its peak, governments and businesses alike are increasingly wary of losing sovereignty and control of their data and workloads. Accenture reports that at least 137 countries have already passed data protection or sovereignty laws, prompting some half of the surveyed CXOs to consider digital sovereignty as a key factor when comparing cloud vendors. As such, digital sovereignty requires certain sovereign capabilities with regard to access control, operations, and locality of data, workloads, and infrastructure — capabilities beyond the domain of public clouds. Soon enough, sovereign cloud will be a part of most organizations’ diverse multi-cloud portfolios.

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