Zos_Kia

I’ve worked my whole career in European tech and I’ve never heard the term sovereignty as much as since 2025. There was an undercurrent certainly, and people were keenly aware that technically the US government could look at their data whenever they felt like it, but it was still natural to plop your infrastructure on AWS or azure and not think too much about it.

Things have really accelerated since he took office, first in the public sector then in the private sector. The burden of proof has kind of reversed, I’ve started hearing a lot of “what specific service do you need on AWS that you can’t have on a European server” whereas it used to be “why don’t we just take AWS”.

The thing is, there is nothing complicated about the kind of services that make US tech billions. Cloud email and docs and drives are solved problems mostly, and they can be replicated almost trivially.

There is definitely something happening to that effect. A lot of people have been pushing for sovereignty for quite some time and they have wind in their sails currently.