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Can Sovereignty Make You Less Resilient?

Sovereignty done right makes you resilient. But sovereignty you don’t operate is the opposite: a risk. You move a workload in-house to be more sovereign. Your jurisdiction, your rules, no outside provider in the loop. More control – which is the whole point. But the provider you left wasn’t only running the service. They were also keeping it up, patching it, and making sure you could still reach it when something broke. You didn’t see that part, because you never had to. ...

July 17, 2026