DeploySovereignCloud Act: why "European region" does not mean "sovereign"
Hosting "in Europe" with a US tech giant does not protect your data from the Cloud Act. We explain the nuance that changes everything—and what we do differently.
Many tools display "data hosted in European region". Reassuring? Not quite. The devil is in the company's jurisdiction, not just in the location of the servers.
The Cloud Act in one sentence
A US law (2018) that allows American authorities to compel a US company to hand over data it controls — wherever it is stored, including in a European datacenter.
In other words: a US company hosting your data "in Germany" or "in Ireland" can still be compelled to hand it over. The region does not protect you; the nationality of the provider does.
The diagram that sums it all up
Cas 1 — fournisseur américain
Les autorités US peuvent exiger vos données — même stockées en Europe. C'est le Cloud Act.
Cas 2 — fournisseur européen
Le Cloud Act ne s'applique pas : seul le droit européen fait foi.
Common pitfalls
- AWS / Azure / GCP EU region: US companies → Cloud Act.
- GitHub (Microsoft) and GitLab.com (US company) → Cloud Act.
- Many "European" SaaS products that actually run on AWS/Azure.
What we do at DeploySovereign
The data of your application — your customers, your content, your database — remains with European providers (OVH, Scaleway), in French datacenters. Only our showcase website and subscription payments rely on international services, and they never touch the business data of your application.
Sovereignty is not a flag on a page: it is a verifiable chain of control from end to end.
A sovereign application, delivered and hosted for you.
From idea to production, on a European cloud.
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