The uncomfortable truth about European cloud sovereignty

My recent blog post about AWS European Sovereign Cloud generated more backlash than I anticipated. The core criticism was simple and sharp: AWS is still a US company. No matter how many legal structures you build, no matter how much you isolate the infrastructure, that fundamental fact doesn't change. The critics are right. And they're also missing the point. This isn't a defence of AWS. It's a reckoning with how we got here and what our actual options are. Because the uncomfortable truth is that we're having this conversation decades too late. We're trying to solve a sovereignty problem we created by failing to invest in European alternatives when it mattered. Europe's missed opportunity Let's talk about the European cloud providers we do have. StackIt, built by Schwarz Group (the people behind Lidl), represents a serious attempt at European cloud infrastructure. OVHCloud, a French company, has been building data centres and cloud services for years. These aren't trivial efforts. They