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What Risks Companies Specifically Underestimate Introduction The use of US cloud services is commonplace for many companies today. Platforms like …
Introduction Many cloud strategies in European companies are based on an assumption long considered a pragmatic compromise: As long as data is stored …
Why Control is More Important than Server Location Introduction Cloud computing is far more than just an infrastructure topic. For many companies, …
Industrial corporations today face a paradoxical challenge: they must adapt the agility and innovative power of cloud startups while maintaining the …
In industrial AI development, the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is the new gold. Whether for training complex neural networks for quality control or …
In the early stages of an e-commerce agency, the approach is usually pragmatic: each new client shop gets its own hosting package. One shop with …
In the industry, a fundamental architectural question arises: Should AI make decisions directly at the machine (Edge) or should the data be sent to a …
In the realm of IT infrastructure, few things are as costly as a modern NVIDIA GPU doing nothing. An H100 or A100 instance with major hyperscalers …
In many data science teams, the workday begins with frustration: A shared notebook won’t run because a library is missing. A model trained on …
A Term Without Substance An open letter from 25 European cloud and digital companies reveals what European digital policy has been avoiding for …
Why We Consciously Don’t Have a Booth This Year – and Expect More Than Ever Before CloudFest is one of the few events where the term …
TL;DR Migrating from centralized hyperscaler platforms to modern decentralized architectural approaches requires precise planning and execution. Best …
TL;DR Security in cloud architectures is a critical factor for companies utilizing digital technologies. Growing demands for compliance, data …
TL;DR Declarative operating models provide companies with an effective method for automating and standardizing complex infrastructure management …
TL;DR Vendor lock-in is one of the central challenges companies face when using cloud services. Strategies like multi-cloud approaches, the use of …
TL;DR Modern cloud architectures play a crucial role in Europe’s digital sovereignty. By gaining independence from hyperscalers and …
But Rather Better Cloud Architectures For years, the European cloud debate has been dominated by a seemingly simple question: Does Europe need its …
Europe’s Missed Opportunity – and Why It’s Not Yet Lost Over the past decade, the cloud has evolved into the central infrastructure of …
TL;DR Milliseconds determine conversion rates and user experience. If every database query has to be read from the disk, the application will collapse …
For years, the cloud debate has been dominated by a simple narrative: those who want to run modern software cannot bypass the major hyperscalers. …
Why License Freedom Alone Does Not Create Control In the European digital debate, Open Source is often seen as synonymous with digital sovereignty. …
Why Two Clouds Do Not Mean Independence In many companies, Multi-Cloud is now considered a shortcut to digital sovereignty. The common assumption is …
Why Dependencies Are Becoming More Dangerous Cloud lock-in is not a new topic. For years, companies have been discussing how challenging it can be to …
The cloud market is entering a new phase. For a long time, the equation was simple: those who wanted to scale went to the hyperscalers. Those who …
Why the Supposed Alternative is Already a Reality In many companies, Microsoft 365 is still considered the standard for digital collaboration. Teams …
TL;DR Storage in Kubernetes is often a nightmare of complexity (Ceph) or vendor lock-in (AWS EBS). Longhorn takes a third path. As a CNCF project, it …
How a Platform Makes European Technology Visible Digital sovereignty has become one of the central topics in European technology policy. In political …
In modern IT infrastructure, the GPU has become the new CPU. Whether it’s Large Language Models (LLMs), computer vision, or complex data …
The digitalization of manufacturing and the networking of decentralized locations present a fundamental challenge for the German SME sector: …
The cloud-native landscape has consolidated. While Kubernetes stands as the de facto standard for orchestration, the boundaries of runtime efficiency …
Why Digital Sovereignty is Less Radical Than Many Believe Geopolitical tensions, extraterritorial laws, sanction regimes – all these have long been …
Why Germany’s Digital Sovereignty Has Become a Security Issue Digital sovereignty is no longer just an industrial policy buzzword. It is a …
The hype around Artificial Intelligence has ushered in a new era of IT spending. Those who train or operate LLMs (Large Language Models) today …
European Cloud Platforms vs. Hyperscalers Sovereignty, Scalability, Security, and Strategic Reality in the Corporate Context Few IT topics are …
Multi-Cloud Strategies for SMEs and Enterprises Architectural Principles, Governance, Security, and Operational Reality Multi-Cloud is no longer just …
For decades, almost all computers have followed the Von Neumann architecture: a strict separation of processor (CPU) and memory. Data must constantly …
The logistics industry has ambitious goals: carbon-neutral fleets and green warehouses. While discussions revolve around alternative drives and …
Data is the gold of modern logistics. Knowing when and where each package is, who calculates the most efficient routes, and who controls the …
The digitization of healthcare promises enormous advancements: from telemedicine support to AI-assisted diagnostics and electronic patient records. …
Nothing is more frustrating for a customer than a “Click & Collect” experience that ends in cancellation. You see online: …
TL;DR In a multi-cloud world, security is not about location, but identity. Relying on cloud-specific tools like AWS Secrets Manager fragments your …
The Era of US Dominance Is Over Yesterday, the European Parliament made a decision that goes far beyond the usual Brussels symbolic politics in its …
In modern retail, the fiercest competition no longer takes place on the shelves, but at the data level. Understanding what the customer will want …
In the growth phase of a SaaS company, there is a dangerous curve: the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS). As user numbers increase, cloud costs often explode …
Imagine getting the same computing power for 70% to 90% less cost. The catch? The cloud provider can take the server away from you at any time with …
In the traditional IT world, budgeting was simple: you bought a server, depreciated it over five years, and recorded the costs as a fixed expense. In …
Europe likes to see itself as a global guardian of data protection and fundamental rights. GDPR, NIS2, AI Act – the regulatory claim is high, the …
The excitement around Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI has brought a fundamental question back to IT departments: How do we scale …
In the past two years, “Internal Developer Platform” has become a buzzword. However, while Gartner praises the IDP as a remedy for …
Current reports of massive data leakage from self-hosted Owncloud, Nextcloud, and ShareFile instances are technically unspectacular – and that is …
“The cloud grows with your needs.” This promise is both a blessing and a curse. For growing businesses, cloud scalability is essential to …
A critical analysis of digital sovereignty in Germany and Switzerland While European governments emphasize the importance of digital sovereignty in …
Germany in Third Place – But Not in Patching Shortly before the end of 2025, what had long been practice became known: Over 11,500 MongoDB instances …
Making Legacy Machines Cloud-Ready: Retrofitting with Container Gateways In many German factories, the backbone of our industry stands strong: …
In modern manufacturing, the question is no longer if data is collected, but how it can be used efficiently. While machines (OT – Operational …
Nextcloud stands for digital independence, European data protection standards, and an open, trustworthy alternative to US-based collaboration …
Containers are the backbone of modern cloud infrastructure. They offer developers and ops teams unmatched agility and efficiency, based on the …
Kubernetes is the Operating System of the Sovereign Cloud Few technologies have fundamentally transformed modern IT as much as Kubernetes. Originally …
Delos Cloud vs. Stackit Workspace – Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing The discussion around digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe is in full …
Docker Swarm is Not Kubernetes for Beginners When discussing container orchestration today, two terms quickly come up: Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. …
In many discussions with IT leaders, sysadmins, and architecture decision-makers, a recurring pattern emerges: The question of “Swarm or …
Many people nod knowingly when the conversation turns to “containerization” or “virtual machines” – but honestly: those who …
The Trojan Horse of the “Sovereign Cloud” Why Europe’s new sovereignty is often just American-painted The meme is brilliant in its …
Many confuse Open Source with sovereignty. Both are interconnected – but one does not automatically guarantee the other. The well-known XKCD meme, …
GitHub will migrate its entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure within the next 24 months. This information comes from internal documents reported …
New Standards for Compliance and European Cloud Sovereignty Effective immediately, ayedo customers have access to another powerful cloud provider: …
TL;DR The EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework makes digital sovereignty precisely measurable for the first time – through eight sovereignty …
Why Hyperscalers Only Sell Hardware – and MSPs Are the Future Hyperscalers have shaped the digital world like few other models. With the promise of …
When discussing digital sovereignty and modern IT infrastructures today, Kubernetes is unavoidable. In just a few years, this open-source project has …
As of: 18.09.2025 Contact: security@ayedo.de Data Act Overview & Introduction Switching Register This page consolidates ayedo-wide information on …
In recent years, Cloud First has been considered an almost unshakeable maxim. Companies of all sizes were encouraged to move their infrastructure to …
Starting Point: Quarterly Figures and Big Promises At the end of July 2025, Meta released its latest quarterly figures – alongside strong revenues …
The debate about sovereignty in the cloud in Europe often revolves around the question: Do we need our own hyperscalers to be independent? Many see …
Operating databases in Kubernetes was long considered risky: Stateful workloads, persistent data, and container orchestration seemed incompatible. …
The fact that the Bundeswehr will store its data in the Google Cloud is not an IT project. It is a security policy capitulation. Just like the …
On October 14, 2025, regular support for Windows 10 will end. What initially appears to many IT departments as a manageable maintenance date reveals …
Why this alliance is a turning point for Europe’s digital self-determination The headline may seem unremarkable, but its content is not: Two …
Why Managed Kubernetes with Hyperscalers Doesn’t Lead to Digital Sovereignty Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard for …
Vendor lock-in refers to the technically, economically, or legally restricted ability to switch an IT service provider or platform vendor without …
Digital sovereignty refers to an organization’s ability to manage its digital systems, data flows, and technical dependencies in a way that …
Cloud infrastructure has its justification. Scalability, automation, and globalization of IT resources are now standard. Technically, the major …
Everyone is talking about AI, Large Language Models, inference pipelines, custom LLMs, and co-pilots for all conceivable business processes. What is …
Most IIoT projects don’t fail because of the machines. The sensors work. The controllers provide data. The networks transmit packets. The …
Hey, I’m Fabian – engineer, entrepreneur, and European citizen residing in Germany. For over 10 years, I’ve been part of the …
Germany discusses data sovereignty but remains technologically dependent. How this relates to our culture and what needs to change to achieve digital …
A sovereign cloud requires more than just a data center in Europe. How the CLOUD Act collides with the GDPR—and which technologies enable true data …
The CLOUD Act allows US authorities to access European data, conflicting with the GDPR. Learn how companies can protect themselves technically and …
The US Cloud Act allows US authorities to access European servers—a clear conflict with the GDPR. Discover how companies can protect themselves and …
Digital transformation is no longer a thing of the future – it is a reality. It affects not only e-commerce or digital tools in the office but has …
Microsoft Bids Farewell to Traditional Server Models – What’s Next? Starting July 2025, the licensing model for Microsoft’s on-premise …
Kubernetes 1.31 has completed the largest migration in Kubernetes history by removing the in-tree cloud provider. Although the migration of components …
The Uncertain Future of EU-US Data Transfer Regulatory uncertainty surrounding data exchange between the EU and the US is increasing once again. …
NIS2 Directive: Why Now is the Perfect Time for Enhanced Security – Ayedo Shows the Way The introduction of the NIS2 Directive has made waves in the …
Maximize Data Sovereignty with Our Internal RAG Solution and the ayedo Cloud Introduction In today’s digital era, efficiently managing large …
Cybersecurity threats are constantly increasing, and companies face the challenge of protecting their sensitive data. A Cyber Risk Assessment is an …
Welcome to the ayedo Cloud – your ultimate platform for zero-downtime SaaS app hosting. Designed for the creative minds who want to enrich the world …
Kubernetes - Managed or Manual? Should you manage Kubernetes yourself or entrust the responsibility to Managed Service Providers? With Kubernetes …
An effective way to minimize these risks is the Cyber Risk Check. In this blog post, you will learn how to identify and mitigate security …
TL;DR Criterion AWS EKS Azure AKS Google GKE Pricing Complex, based on instances, services, and data transfer Varies depending on node type and …
The digital transformation not only brings advantages but also new challenges in the field of cybersecurity. To address these challenges and ensure …
Network security is often neglected, even though it is of high importance! Both in the private and business sectors, often only one tool is used, and …
The IT Planning Council adopts the document “German Administrative Cloud Strategy: Framework for Target Architecture 2.0”. Download PDF …