EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework Explained
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EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework v1.2.1 (Oct 2025) defines 8 Sovereignty Objectives with explicit weights (strategic 15%, legal 10%, operational 15%, supply chain 20%, technology 15%, security 10%, environment 5%) and maps organisations to SEAL levels 0–4 toward Full Digital Sovereignty. A 32-question self-assessment (≈20 minutes) created by SUSE returns a SEAL score and concrete remediation steps. The framework treats open source as a path to SEAL‑4, flags GitHub/Microsoft jurisdiction risks, and already sees adoption outside the EU (Canada, Japan, Africa).
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:53What is digital sovereignty
- 9:54EU cloud sovereignty framework
- 13:31Eight framework objectives
- 18:53Seal levels and self-assessment
- 23:11Q&A
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