Cloud sovereignty is emerging as a security and resilience question: who can govern the workload, who can move it, and who can keep it running when pressure lands on the stack.
The real dispute in Italy is not whether organizations can own every layer of their stack, but whether they can separate data, governance, and technology well enough to stay in charge when a provider becomes hard to leave.
Italy and Europe are treating “sovereign cloud” as a security question, but the real test is whether jurisdiction, operations, supply chain, and AI defenses can be measured and governed.
The business case for “sovereign cloud” is less about geography than about control, portability, and how much of a SaaS stack a company can truly govern.