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Common questions about cloud independence and our community
Clouds of Europe is a community platform for European practitioners pioneering digital sovereignty with open source and open standards. We publish curated resources across policy and sovereignty, strategy and transition, and hands-on practice.
Digital sovereignty ensures European organisations maintain control over their data, infrastructure, and technology choices. It reduces dependency on non-European cloud providers, strengthens GDPR compliance, and supports the development of a resilient European digital ecosystem.
Start with our getting started guides in the Practice section, which cover Kubernetes fundamentals, European cloud provider comparisons, and migration strategies. Join our community to connect with practitioners who have completed similar transitions.
Yes, Clouds of Europe is a free community platform. All content is openly accessible, and membership gives you access to the community directory, event registration, and the ability to contribute content.
From strategic independence to organizational transformation to hands-on implementation—your complete journey to cloud sovereignty.
Start with proven frameworks, learn from real implementations, and connect with European alternatives
Go's BSD licence means Google can't restrict it even if they wanted to. The real sovereignty risk isn't who wrote the compiler, it's getting locked into GCP or AWS libraries built on top of it.
When the React2Shell vulnerability hit Next.js in December 2025, our architecture enabled rapid response: own your container builds, GitOps deployment, Kubernetes rollout controls. Security patch deployed in 3 hours. Independence isn't just sovereignty—it's agility.
How we implemented synthetic monitoring across Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw using Grafana Operator CRDs and GitOps principles, open source and independent. Proudly European.
We're opening up our office for an informal evening with practitioners working on European cloud sovereignty. No presentations. No agenda. Just drinks, conversation, and people dealing with the same challenges. Bring your questions, frustrations, or just curiosity. Chatham House Rule applies — speak freely.
Learn from real European organizations who have successfully achieved cloud independence
June to December 2025: complete platform, multi-cluster GitOps, centralized monitoring, 264 API tests, production-ready. Small team, running a company, building on European values throughout. Here's how modern tooling makes European cloud independence achievable in months, not years.
To understand where European cloud infrastructure needs to go, we must first understand where European organizations are today. The cloud adoption stories reveal both the transformative power and the urgent need for sovereign alternatives.