Sovereign Cloud Coverage

Method notes

• A region counts as sovereign when it's run by a distinct operating entity (AWS GovCloud LLC, Microsoft Federal, Bleu, S3NS) or marketed under a formal sovereign-cloud SKU — a clear, separate procurement track with its own contractual terms and operating staff.
• "Sovereign Lite" disclosure. Some regions are flagged sovereign by FluffyStack but not branded that way by the vendor. We mark these with a Lite badge in the country panel. Two groups today: (1) Chinese hyperscaler regions (AWS China / Azure 21Vianet / Alibaba / Huawei / Tencent) — operated by distinct domestic entities under PRC law, isolated from global networks, sovereign in effect but called just "China regions" by the vendor; and (2) Scaleway, which markets the brand as European-sovereign but doesn't sell a per-region Sovereign Cloud SKU. Worth knowing when comparing — "Lite" still means meaningful jurisdictional separation, but the vendor doesn't put the word "sovereign" in the contract.
• "Cloud regions present but no sovereign-flagged" means buyers can host data in-country, but jurisdictional protection beyond what the parent provider offers commercially isn't claimed.
• We map by region location, not by parent provider headquarters. US-headquartered AWS operating in Frankfurt is one cloud region in Germany; whether it counts as "sovereign" depends on whether AWS markets a sovereign-SKU there (currently no, even though Frankfurt is GDPR-resident).
• Sovereign-cloud landscape is moving fast — see the changelog for recent additions (S3NS, Bleu, STACKIT, Outscale, etc.).