During last few weeks, we have decided to rename the planned Forrester Landscape on “Digital Sovereignty Platforms” to “Sovereign Cloud Platforms” to better reflect swift and rapid changes in the general availability of sovereign tech products and services. Three main reasons brought us to make this change:

  • The current sovereign tech landscape is more complex than one year ago. In 2024, the sovereign platforms market was still blurred, with very few comprehensive announcements from vendors and service providers and little actual choice for products with general availability (GA). That is why at the end of 2024, we planned Forrester’s sovereignty Landscapes and Waves for 2025 with a broader scope in mind than just cloud. Newly announced tariffs, the anticipated retaliation measures, and an increasing global geopolitical volatility overall have resulted in an evolved sovereign technology landscape with more products and services available, specifically in the cloud space.
  • Each tech market is developing its own sovereign solutions. From software, to networks, to service providers and beyond, digital sovereignty is a theme that is pervading every area of the enterprises’ IT stack. This is driving the creation of new sovereign solutions and services parallel to those already available in the different tech markets. This results in the evolution of a sort of sovereign twins: solutions and services which mirror the generic ones, embedding sovereign guardrails and features. As a result, we have recently observed the clearest and broadest advancements in the sovereign cloud space.
  • Global clients want to know what their sovereign cloud options are. New risks – such as foreign administrations being empowered to push the kill switch – have raised concerns at global organizations about their dependencies on foreign vendors. Our clients nowadays realize that these dependencies – when not properly managed – could put them out of business. Therefore, our clients want to know their alternatives. We have seen the greatest uptick in demand with regards to a specific overview of the sovereign cloud solutions available nowadays.

For all these reasons, we are moving ahead with a new title for this Forrester Landscape and Wave evaluation project to start analyzing just one of these sovereign tech markets and leaving space for more accurate analysis of other such markets in the future. For now, welcome to the era of sovereign cloud platforms.