Digital Sovereignty Decoded: Why Your Cloud Region Isn't a Strategy
Commvault, Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Commvault explains why choosing a sovereign cloud region alone falls short of true digital sovereignty.
Commvault's CTO for EMEA, Darren Thomson, argues that selecting a sovereign cloud region addresses where data lives but not who can access it or under what legal authority.
The post outlines four interdependent pillars of sovereignty: data locality, technological, operational, and jurisdictional sovereignty. It warns that many sovereignty programs break down by treating backup and recovery architecture separately from primary data governance, a gap exposed during incidents.
The author advocates minimum viable sovereignty, calibrating controls to actual obligations rather than maximizing sovereignty at any cost.