InfoQ - Sovereignty

"Pick and Mix" Custom Regions: Cloudflare Introduces Fine-Grained Data Residency Control

Renato Losio — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:01:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently introduced Custom Regions, an expansion of its Regional Services that lets customers precisely define where their data is processed. By selecting specific groups of data centers by country or region, customers can ensure that TLS termination and application-layer processing remain within chosen geographic boundaries for compliance and control.

By Renato Losio

Article: Architecting Portable Systems on Open Standards for Digital Sovereignty

Jakob Beckmann — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Digital sovereignty is about maintaining control of critical systems by limiting reliance on any single vendor. Open standards and portable architectures reduce lock‑in and keep migration options open, even when providers change pricing, licensing, or viability. Full independence is impossible, but disciplined design and clear guardrails strengthen resilience.

By Jakob Beckmann

QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:03:00 GMT

Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, and local-first software for collaboration, all designed to make switching providers trivial and shift power back to users.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers