The sovereign cloud can only be attained by US and China, says Gartner

"The analyst cites a Dutch healthcare institution that built its own infrastructure but was still affected by an outage because a supplier was dependent on a major cloud provider. There are plenty of examples like this, and they are by no means exclusive to cloud players. The NorthC outage at its own data center in Almere demonstrated that critical functions in public transportation, education, and elsewhere can grind to a halt due to a single link in the chain."

Only China and the United States can currently operate a sovereign cloud. Buyers outside those countries cannot avoid relationships with companies from one of those two nations, even when using on-premise cloud solutions from American hyperscalers marketed as sovereign. European technology companies must demonstrate a viable alternative. Prior sovereign plans have not moved beyond “nice white papers.” The public cloud market is considered stable, and a large-scale alternative to AWS, Azure, or GCP is not immediately apparent. Sovereign SaaS providers and products may be more feasible. Customers also lack exit strategies when sovereign vendors are unavailable, and outages can still occur through supplier dependencies on major cloud providers.

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