2025-11-20

Sovereign cloud: the essential guide for enterprises

Understand key concepts, requirements, and options to build cloud sovereignty in your organization

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Digital sovereignty has become a critical topic for enterprises, particularly in Europe following the EU’s call for a ‘Europe fit for the digital age.’ Geopolitical tensions, evolving regulations, and new security challenges linked to AI and machine learning (ML) have made the issue more urgent.

Building a sovereign cloud is one of the critical steps that enterprises need to make to improve their digital sovereignty.

What will you learn from this guide?

  • An in-depth breakdown of the three levels of digital sovereignty
  • The geopolitical, regulatory, and technological factors driving digital sovereignty
  • What level of digital sovereignty different major cloud models (public, hosted, private, and sovereign cloud) can provide
  • How to decide whether a sovereign cloud is right for you
  • A checklist of essential features for a sovereign cloud
  • How to build a sovereign cloud using Canonical’s stack, and real world use cases

Gain back control of your infrastructure and data with an open source sovereign cloud

Canonical’s open source software solutions provide full control over your data, infrastructure, and operations. With our modular infrastructure components, you can build a sovereign cloud tailored to your organization’s individual needs – on your terms.

Free resources:

  • Learn about the geopatriation of clouds on our blog
  • Get the latest research on how European organizations are using open source to drive digital sovereignty in the Linux Foundation report
  • Find out more about Canonical’s infrastructure solutions on our webpage

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