Five questions on jurisdiction, technical access, key control, exit paths, and switching cost to test any 'sovereign cloud' claim beyond marketing. Part 1 of 6.

Kubernetes RBAC, OVH IAM v2, LiteLLM keys, and an AI coding agent compared on documentation, auditing, and technical enforcement of who has access. Part 3 of 6.

A framework for telling a legally-enforced sovereignty promise from a technically-enforced one, applied across BYOK, RBAC, and AI-agent access. Part 4 of 6.

Data export formats, API/query-language openness, and egress pricing checked across AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, and five EU sovereignty offerings. Part 5 of 6.

Reading guide for a six-part series testing "sovereign cloud" claims against ownership, technology stack, access, enforcement, exit, and switching cost.

Switching cost in practice: skills gaps, familiarity, and a working example of designing for reversibility instead of assuming permanence. Part 6 of 6.