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Between the European Open Source Awards, the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026, and the organized chaos of FOSDEM, one thing is clear: Europe is no longer just “talking” about sovereignty, we are finally striving to turn political ambition into industrial reality

Lots of people talk about sovereignty, independency and other big topics these days. All good reasons to switch. But the bottom line is, it’s also simply cheaper to run your cloud in Europe. Period.

“Today’s geopolitical and economic context confirms the vision that led to SiPearl’s inception. Sovereign hardware is mandatory to ensure Europe’s independence and sovereignty in AI and strategic fields such as security and defence,” said Philippe Notton, CEO and founder of SiPearl. “With the tape-out of the most complex processor ever designed in Europe, we are showing that Europe now has a competitor capable of challenging non-European leaders.

The Netherlands is becoming a “scale-up country” for AI, the government will centralize the management of IT procurement, and the NIS2 directive will (finally) be transformed into the Cybersecurity Act. At least, that’s the goal of the proposed new minority government consisting of D66, CDA, and VVD. In the coalition agreement published today, the “digital world” gets two and a half pages of plans. What do these plans look like?

In a bold move to address Europe’s growing demand for digital sovereignty, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set to launch its AWS European Sovereign Cloud by the end of 2025. With a €7.8 billion investment through 2040, AWS is building a fully independent cloud infrastructure in the European Union, starting with its first region in Brandenburg, Germany. This initiative empowers public sector organisations and regulated industries to meet stringent data residency, operational autonomy, and security requirements while leveraging AWS’s cloud services. Here’s why this development is a game-changer and what it means for developers, businesses, and the cloud ecosystem.

German software giant SAP on Tuesday announced it will invest over 20 billion euros ($23.3 billion) into its sovereign cloud capabilities in Europe over the next 10 years.

Establishing Europe’s largest login company gave us a solid foundation, but even we were surprised when investors decided in less than five minutes to support EIDP. Their strong commitment, including future investment, highlights their confidence in our mission.

On August 28, 2025, Bitnami is flipping the switch on its container image distribution model, effectively ending free access to production-grade container images that power millions of Kubernetes clusters worldwide. If you’re running Postgres, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, NGINX, or any of Bitnami’s 280+ application catalog, this seismic shift demands your immediate attention.