On June 16, 2025, Microsoft announced the next evolution: a suite of comprehensive sovereign solutions designed to give European enterprises more control, more choice, and more flexibility across both public and private infrastructure.
As “Mr. Microsoft,” I see this as more than a technical update. It’s a game-changer.
Microsoft offers different flavors of cloud solutions, each tailored for specific business needs regarding control and sovereignty over your data:
Microsoft has spent nearly two decades in search of a new class of materials to be able to create a new Core for quantum computing. It is the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture. After tireless R&D, they’ve succeeded, unveiling the Microsoft Majorana 1 chip.
In 2024, Microsoft unveiled additional measures under its EU Data Boundary framework, promising that certain customer data for core services such as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365 will remain strictly within the European Union.
Do you remember 2016? Pokémon Go had us wandering through parks, Stranger Things hit Netflix for the first time, and Microsoft launched its very own sovereign cloud in Germany, complete with data trustee and physical isolation. Well, guess what? We’re back. Sort of. Because Microsoft 365 is now—once again—available from German data centers.
At Microsoft Ignite 2019 in sunny Florida (ah, those were the days of real-world events…), Microsoft quietly dropped what I’d call one of the most strategic Azure announcements in years:
Azure Arc.
Wait, what’s Azure Arc? Is it yet another Azure service?
Yes. And no.
Because Azure Arc isn’t just a service—it’s a paradigm shift.
Let’s face it: When spinning up your first few Azure VMs for dev or testing purposes, high availability probably isn’t the first thing on your mind. But once we start talking about production workloads, especially business-critical applications, the game changes. Suddenly, uptime becomes a non-negotiable.
