Writing
Notes on EU data sovereignty, analytical databases, and how to buy both. Written for the people who have to justify the choice internally.
- Procurement
How to write the sovereignty section of a data platform RFP
Airbus scored protection from extraterritorial law as a weighted criterion rather than a yes/no box. That one decision is worth copying, and it is easier than it looks.
- Engineering
Query in place or ingest? It depends whose bucket it is
External tables let you query object storage without copying it — which is a sovereignty win over EU storage and a sovereignty trap over ADLS Gen2. The deciding variable is jurisdiction, not copy count.
- Sovereignty
The CLOUD Act and your data warehouse: why an EU region is not EU jurisdiction
Choosing the Frankfurt region does not put your analytics outside US legal reach. Here is what actually determines jurisdiction, and the five questions that settle it for any vendor.