Contents
Eight sections, a linear or chapter-by-chapter read
Chapter 01
Market overview
Framing of the European cloud market, segmentation by IaaS / PaaS / SaaS layer, actor dynamics.
Chapter 02
Mapping of providers
Inventory of operators present on European soil, effective jurisdiction, relative size.
Chapter 03
Evolution of sovereignty scores
Comparative reading of scores over the covered period, gains and losses per criterion.
Chapter 04
Regulatory trends
EUCS, NIS2, Data Act, AI Act. State of progress of the texts and concrete impact on public procurement.
Chapter 05
Sectoral analysis
Vertical reading by sector (health, finance, public sector, industry) with market-specific characteristics.
Chapter 06
Use cases
A selection of representative migrations, without naming the organisations, with technical and financial trade-offs.
Chapter 07
Outlook
Probable trajectories for the year ahead, points of vigilance, weak signals.
Chapter 08
Methodology
Sources, coverage percentages, known biases, review protocol. Reference to the online methodological documentation.
Key figures [TO BE COMPLETED]
Orders of magnitude for this edition
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Sovereign cloud adoption (year-on-year change)
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Size of the European cloud market (EUR bn)
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Providers analysed in this edition
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Scores updated over the period
Final values will be published once the data of the last covered quarter has been consolidated.
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A public framework, traceable sources
The annual observatory fully reuses the NextHop scoring framework: six weighted criteria (jurisdiction, immunity, technology, data, certifications, openness), public sources only, versioned weightings, change log. Every cited figure is reproducible from the documented sources.
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