"Interest in sovereign cloud services has followed a bumpy trajectory over the past decade, both in the public sector and private enterprises. In the early days of cloud computing, fear, uncertainty and doubt reigned supreme in boardrooms and IT departments, as CIOs and IT decision-makers grappled with the notion of migrating workloads off physical hardware, housed in privately owned datacentres, to multi-tenanted public clouds, operated by overseas tech firms."
"Around this time, the domestic cloud markets in many countries, including the UK, began to flourish as providers emerged that specialised in the provision of locally hosted, sovereign public cloud services. These setups provided UK-based enterprise IT buyers, for example, with assurances that their applications and workloads would be hosted in UK-based datacentres, whose operations would be governed by UK laws and regulations, with no access permitted by overseas governments or entities."
Sovereign cloud interest experienced fluctuations over the past decade, driven by early fear, uncertainty and doubt among CIOs about migrating workloads to multi-tenant public clouds. Enterprises adopted private clouds to retain control while leveraging cloud benefits. Domestic providers offering locally hosted sovereign public clouds emerged, promising UK-based datacentres governed by UK laws and no overseas access. Over time enterprises grew comfortable with US hyperscalers, but concerns persisted until Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce opened UK datacentres in 2014–2016, providing locally hosted service versions. That shift reduced demand for domestic sovereign providers, causing some closures, acquisitions or business pivots. Hyperscale UK-hosted services demand has continued to grow.
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