This is a new Leadership Compass topic for us. To see what Mike has previously written about this topic, please click here.
To achieve EU sovereignty, ownership, physical infrastructure, support personnel, and cloud operations must be in the EU and subject to EU laws. There must be no administrative access, overriding ownership, or control rights held by non-EU entities that could create exposure to foreign legislation such as the U.S. CLOUD Act. The cloud provider must ensure that the residency of customers’ data is strictly enforced, that encryption keys are generated and controlled within EU borders, and that management operations are performed exclusively by EU-based personnel.
To qualify for inclusion in this Leadership Compass, vendors must demonstrate not only the breadth of their IaaS service coverage but also the depth of their services for sector-specific markets such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing and public sector use cases. Both breadth and depth of capabilities will be reflected in the rating, but also the spider charts that emphasize specific capability areas and thus show the specialization of vendors and their products to provide a fair rating for specialist vendors.
Inclusion Criteria
Solutions must:
- Provide an IaaS within the European Union that is fully subject to EU laws and regulations.
- The service must provide a standardized, productized IaaS cloud offering
- The service must be capable of being consumed from infrastructure based in the EU/EEA
- The service must include service centers and support staff based in the EU/EEA
Exclusion Criteria
Solutions will be excluded if:
- The vendor only provides managed services without any infrastructure
- The vendor only provides hosting services without a cloud-enabled infrastructure
