The Rise of Digital Sovereignty
The Reasoning Show
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Brian closes the episode, offers resources, cautions this isn't legal advice, and invites further listener questions.
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We take a listener question about digital sovereignty, tariffs and UK/EU independence from large US cloud providers, also Brian reaches out to the Melbourne, AUS listeners.
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SHOW NOTES
- AWS European Sovereign Cloud
- Azure European Sovereign Services
- Google Cloud Sovereign Cloud
- Red Hat Digital Sovereignty
- Broadcom Digital Sovereignty
- Oracle Digital Sovereignty
- Digital Sovereignty in Europe, What’s the Plan B? (IDC)
- Digital Commons EDIC Established (2025)
- EU AI Act
- “Sovereign Clouds and the Digital Sovereignty Imperative: Europe's Quest for Digital Independence” (IDC #EUR149098122, December 2022)
- The Evolution of Digital Sovereignty: Moving Beyond Data and Cloud” (Rahiel Nasir, IDC, January 13, 2023)
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
- What is the definition of Digital Sovereignty? What about Digital Assurance?
- Sovereignty from who or what?
- What laws are you attempting to comply with? How are they audited or measured?
- Data Sovereignty - Maintaining control over how data is collected, classified, processed and stored to ensure that data regulations are met
- Technical Sovereignty - Running workloads without dependence on a provider’s infrastructure or software, and protected from all extra-territorial interference and scrutiny.
- Operational Sovereignty - Visibility and control over provider operations from provisioning and performance management, to monitoring of physical and digital access, to the infrastructure.
- Assurance Sovereignty -Ability to independently verify and assure the integrity, security, and reliability of digital systems and processes including resilience of critical services.
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