My Blog to share my knowledge Zola 2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://blog.none.at/tags/cloud-act/atom.xml 2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 aleks https://blog.none.at/blog/2026/2026-07-09-sovereign-cloud-washing/

<p>“Sovereign cloud” is printed on marketing pages from AWS, Microsoft, Google, and a long list of European providers alike. The label rarely comes with a definition, which makes it easy to satisfy on paper and hard to verify in practice. I’ve put together five concrete questions, asked of the claim itself instead of the label — enough to see, from several angles, what a provider actually stands behind.</p>

2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 aleks https://blog.none.at/blog/2026/2026-07-09-sovereignty-enforcement-framework/

<p>The same distinction has come up three times already in this series without being named directly: BYOK in <a href="https://blog.none.at/blog/2026/2026-07-09-sovereign-cloud-washing/">Part 1</a>, two vendors’ own statements in <a href="https://blog.none.at/blog/2026/2026-07-09-sovereignty-technology-stack/">Part 2</a>, and Kubernetes RBAC against a written <code>CLAUDE.md</code> rule in <a href="https://blog.none.at/blog/2026/2026-07-09-sovereignty-access-model/">Part 3</a>. This post makes it explicit, adds a third rung most sovereignty marketing doesn’t reach yet, and applies it across everything the series has found so far — no new research, just naming a pattern that kept repeating.</p>