Data residence has become a much debated topic over the past couple of years with the largest public cloud providers. Geopolitical precedence, legal requirements and the technological confidential compute bring higher focus on the topic for European companies in particular.

This talk will cover the current state of sovereignty and data ownership, the existing technical measures to implement confidential computing on the largest hyperscalers, as well as the caveats for those who consider choosing a true EU-based public cloud provider.