Off-Prem Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent It’s not possible to operate a completely sovereign cloud outside of China or the USA, according to Douglas Toombs, a VP analyst at Gartner. Speaking at the analyst firm’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney today, Toombs said only the US and China make all the tech needed for a sovereign cloud. Buyers elsewhere can’t avoid relationships with foreign providers. Toombs said that while US-based cloud vendors have created products they say can meet the needs of organizations that need a cloud that doesn’t have legal entanglements outside their chosen jurisdiction, the fact they’re ultimately owned by American corporations means it’s not possible to be certain a cloud provider can promise complete sovereignty. Even on-prem clouds like AWS Outposts, Azure Local, or Oracle’s Dedicated Cloud Regions, “need to phone home,” he said.…