Choosing where to host your data is only part of choosing a cloud provider. You also need to know who controls the infrastructure, how dependent your applications are on it and what your options would be if access were restricted.

In this episode of Cloudscapes, Jussi Jääskeläinen, Chief Architect at Telia, discusses how those questions shape Telia’s approach to cloud sovereignty and infrastructure resilience.

Spreading risk across providers

Jussi compares Telia’s cloud strategy to an investment portfolio. Spreading workloads across providers helps manage risk, but it also means thinking carefully about where each application belongs and how much dependence on a particular provider is acceptable.

Part of that decision is understanding what it would take to move. A service might meet today’s needs while making a future migration difficult. Jussi discusses how open-source software and cloud-native building blocks can help keep that option open, and how proprietary services can make leaving harder.

Making sovereignty work for developers

Those infrastructure choices also affect the people building and running applications. Developers need APIs and tools that let them automate deployments, scale resources and get their work done efficiently.

Jussi explores the challenge of giving teams that flexibility while meeting the organisation’s governance and sovereignty requirements. For a large enterprise, both have to work together in day-to-day operations.

The conversation also covers European regulation, including NIS2, DORA and the AI Act, and how AI is changing cloud operations.

Watch the full episode

Hear Jussi explain how Telia weighs its cloud choices, manages dependence on providers and keeps control of critical applications.

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