How to deliver real data sovereignty

There's so much nuance about data sovereignty I needed a second article to dig into how to actually achieve it. Location is just a part of it: encryption, isolation, and verifiable access controls define whether organizations can truly protect their data. But yes, the US CLOUD Act and FISA matter

what does an EU cloud region mean? well, what's the ownership structure, where are the admins based, when can production workloads get touched. securing that against legal access means managing encryption keys and considering confidential computing or private cloud - which is a lot of work

extreme versions of data sovereignty are going to be in tension with productivity; think about what you actually need to protect that much and don't wait for the dust to settle because you need to be secure now. and hey, you probably need to go tag your data so you can actually manage it this way

As always, thanks to everyone who talked to me about this topic, which is moving so fast I updated details twice while it was being edited!