Beyond the Hyperscalers: What Actually Protects You

European companies are increasingly reassessing their reliance on US hyperscale cloud providers in response to rising costs, regulatory questions such as NIS2, data-residency demands, and concerns about foreign government access or account restrictions. Infrastructure specialist Waldemar Kindler recommends testing European alternatives such as Scaleway, Hetzner, and OVHcloud while reducing dependencies and improving portability. Cloud economist Sarbjeet Johal argues that organizations should avoid disrupting stable, cost-effective systems unless major business changes justify a migration, noting the tension between consolidating vendors and pursuing best-of-breed services. Hopsworks CEO Jim Dowling, whose company moved workloads from AWS to OVHcloud and Hetzner and reduced costs by 62%, attributes its successful migration to Kubernetes-based architecture and avoiding proprietary cloud APIs. The discussion also examines whether EU regions, sovereign-cloud offerings, encryption, and European subsidiaries protect customers from US legal reach, while framing cloud choice as both a technical and economic issue and a broader question of Europe’s digital sovereignty.

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