The EU cloud sovereignty trap

The European Union is once again legislating sovereignty with its proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, or CADA . The legislation would establish a four-level sovereignty framework for cloud services used by EU institutions and public-sector organizations, with the most sensitive workloads (defense, national security, justice, and law enforcement) required to run on services at the higher assurance levels. The thinking is straightforward: With AWS, Microsoft, and Google controlling roughly 70%