EU vs non-EU cloud providers: managing compliance and sovereignty risks in private cloud infrastructure

Cloud provider jurisdiction: the architecture decision that breaks production migrations You're three months into a production migration when legal drops the bomb: your customer contracts require EU data residency, and your current AWS setup processes everything through us-east-1. This scenario plays out constantly. Engineering teams pick cloud providers based on technical features, then discover jurisdiction requirements that force expensive architectural rewrites. The smart move? Factor compli