Digital sovereignty is often discussed at a policy level. In practice, it comes down to how your infrastructure is set up, who operates it, and which legal frameworks apply.

On 3 June 2026, the European Commission proposed the European Tech Sovereignty Package, and in doing so dragged cloud sovereignty out of policy circles and into the boardroom. The package itself is sprawling industrial policy: chips, AI, cloud, open source, and energy.

Data residency, data sovereignty, and digital sovereignty are often used interchangeably, but they describe different parts of how your infrastructure is actually set up.

Companies are increasingly moving to cloud and hybrid models because their in-house IT teams, who used to just manage Exchange servers and desktops, often don't have the right tools, time, or specialised skills to run today's always-on platforms.

And even when businesses are already using the cloud, there's a huge difference between simply "being in the cloud" and actually having a high-availability architecture managed by experts. That distinction has become critical for business resilience.