"Sovereignty, locality, and 'alternative cloud' strategies are often treated as simple settings in hyperscaler consoles. Pick a region, check a compliance box, and move on. IT consultancy Coinerella posted about replacing a typical US-centric startup baseline with a 'Made in the EU' stack. They treat sovereignty as an architectural posture and an operating model that can save money."
"The hyperscaler narrative suggests that leaving AWS is mostly about giving up features. Coinerella found something different, at least for the basics. Compared with what many teams experience on AWS, their new performance and capability were solid, and the cost profile was compelling."
"Leaders often talk about sovereignty until the first production incident, the first compliance review, or the first integration gap. Coinerella remains committed and is addressing the consequences."
Coinerella demonstrates that treating cloud sovereignty as an architectural strategy rather than a simple compliance checkbox can yield substantial cost savings while maintaining performance. By deliberately building a European-based infrastructure stack using Hetzner for core compute and storage alongside Scaleway for managed services, the company avoided vendor lock-in and reduced concentration risk. This approach requires accepting operational friction and increased responsibility compared to hyperscaler defaults, but challenges the narrative that leaving major cloud providers means sacrificing capabilities. The strategy addresses practical concerns including data residency, GDPR compliance, and infrastructure viability while proving that alternative clouds can be viable for modern platform requirements.
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