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Understanding Sovereign Cloud Requirements

  • What sovereign cloud means in an enterprise context
  • Business, regulatory, and operational drivers for sovereignty
  • Data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and technology sovereignty
  • Common trade-offs, constraints, and misconceptions

Establishing Governance and Control

  • Identifying legal, regulatory, contractual, and internal policy requirements
  • Defining roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation paths
  • Setting policies for data residency, access control, audit, and oversight
  • Managing provider risk, third-party dependencies, and accountability

Choosing Suitable Cloud Architectures

  • Comparing public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud options
  • Matching hosting models to workload sensitivity and business needs
  • Designing for identity, encryption, key management, logging, and administrative control
  • Considering portability and interoperability early in architecture decisions

Planning for Exit and Portability

  • Why exit planning should be included from the start
  • Identifying lock-in risks across platforms, data, tooling, and contracts
  • Defining exit triggers, target environments, and transition responsibilities
  • Preparing for data export, migration, service continuity, and recovery

Building a Practical Sovereign Cloud Roadmap

  • Assessing current maturity, risks, and priority gaps
  • Creating a phased action plan for governance, architecture, and exit readiness
  • Reviewing a sample strategy and discussing practical adaptations
  • Summary, recommendations, and next steps

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts, including public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud models
  • Familiarity with IT governance, risk, compliance, enterprise architecture, or cloud adoption decisions
  • General business or technical experience working with cloud-based services

Audience

  • IT leaders, cloud architects, and enterprise architects
  • Governance, risk, compliance, and data protection professionals
  • Technology managers and transformation teams involved in cloud strategy and vendor planning
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