Cloud Sovereignty Guide Scores 40 Offerings Across Five Regions

A new cloud buyer’s guide assesses 40 offerings from seven hyperscalers across five regions, giving buyers a framework to compare sovereignty across legal, operational and technical dimensions.

TheCUBE Research’s Sovereign or Not? The 2026 Hyperscaler Buyer’s Guide rates offerings on a one-to-five scale using 17 tests. Its five pillars are territorial, operational, technological, legal and financial. The regions are the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and a combined Middle East and Africa category.

Guide author Amit Eyal Govrin said, “Sovereignty is not a purity test.” He assessed that no hyperscaler has a practical solution to the U.S. CLOUD Act.

Section 2713 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code requires covered electronic communication and remote computing service providers to comply with obligations under the chapter to preserve, back up or disclose the contents of communications and records or other information pertaining to a customer or subscriber within their possession, custody or control. Those obligations apply wherever the information is stored. The provision does not itself establish unrestricted government access to every record.

Amazon Web Services says it has not disclosed enterprise or government content stored outside the United States to the U.S. government since it began reporting that measure in 2020. AWS also says it offers technical controls to prevent access to customer data.

The guide’s framework places legal questions alongside territorial, operational, technological and financial considerations when assessing cloud offerings for buyers.