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Digital Sovereignty Requires Portability The European debate on digital sovereignty has been stuck in a remarkably superficial loop for years. …
In many industrial and corporate structures, there is a constant tension between two departments. On one side are the data engineering and analytics …
When a B2B company enters into contracts with highly regulated industries such as banking, insurance, or the automotive sector, the final decision …
When companies decide to modernize their IT infrastructure, short-term criteria are usually at the forefront: What features does the software offer …
The discussion about digital sovereignty, the US CLOUD Act, and IT compliance is often conducted at a very theoretical level. However, the structured …
The use of established US SaaS solutions is standard in the mid-sized business sector. Whether for collaboration, customer support, or document …
🧠 Editorial I increasingly feel that Europe confuses digital sovereignty with infrastructure folklore. US clouds suddenly become …
For many SaaS providers, compliance checks by a new major client or an official audit (like ISO 27001) or SOC2 are daunting projects. Logs are …
In the modern IT world, video is the crown discipline. A high-performance video infrastructure today must be many things at once: elastically …
Video data is highly sensitive. Whether it’s internal strategy meetings, confidential investor calls, or patient data in healthcare, the …
When thinking about monitoring, many first consider technical metrics. However, monitoring endpoints inevitably involves data processing, bringing …
In many companies, preparing for an IT security audit is a massive effort: systems are manually checked for weeks, configurations are reconciled, and …
It’s a classic in IT operations: A critical service suddenly becomes unreachable, browsers display warning messages, and customers escalate. …
In the traditional IT world, maintenance windows are a necessary evil. They usually occur at night or on weekends to minimize disruption. However, in …
Operators of critical infrastructures (KRITIS) invest heavily in fail-safety. However, this planning often ends at the data center’s property …
For those building modern data engineering pipelines, S3 (Simple Storage Service) is indispensable. It is the industry standard for accessing …
In theory, Artificial Intelligence is a boon for the industry. In practice, implementation often stumbles over a mundane hurdle: hardware …
Transforming Mature Ansible Structures into a Scalable Polycrate Platform Architecture 1. The Strategic Necessity of Transformation In modern …
Operating Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or complex eCommerce solutions presents an economic and architectural challenge: the cost structure demands …
In the fintech world, there’s a well-known phenomenon: the software is great, the team is convinced, but the legal and compliance department of …
When you ask an Ops team in a fintech about the most stressful event of the year, the answer is usually: “The annual IT audit.” For …
In recent years, the strategy for many fintechs was clear: “Managed first.” Those looking to grow quickly used the ready-made building …
In a shared infrastructure environment like a DBaaS platform, transparency is a balancing act. On one hand, the provider’s operations team …
In a multi-region architecture, “configuration drift” is the greatest enemy of resilience. Drift occurs when an urgent hotfix is applied …
In the world of Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS), having a sophisticated high availability concept in the drawer is not enough. Auditors and …
TL;DR Zero-Trust architecture provides the necessary security and governance foundation for digital sovereignty in heterogeneous environments. Core …
Introduction For a long time, digital sovereignty was discussed as a political buzzword—vague, elusive, and often without immediate consequence for …
Why Encryption Alone Is Not Enough Introduction Encryption is considered the pinnacle of modern IT security. Data is protected, access is controlled, …
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 …
In the world of critical infrastructures (KRITIS), “high availability” is not just a buzzword but a legal and societal obligation. Those …
In many technical service teams, there is a dangerous pragmatism when it comes to communication: When things need to move quickly on-site or at the …
In many companies, the process of digital signing is the last “analog island” or a dangerous compliance breach. Maintenance logs are …
For a long time, IT infrastructure in B2B sales was a peripheral issue. Companies relied on major US SaaS providers because they were considered the …
TL;DR Unencrypted SSH keys, plaintext passwords, and credentials in wikis pose a compliance risk—especially under GDPR (since 25.05.2018) and NIS-2 …
TL;DR Manual compliance checking with Excel lists is slow, error-prone, and hardly reproducible – with Policy as Code, you describe your requirements …
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 Modern cloud architectures play a crucial role in Europe’s digital sovereignty. By gaining independence from hyperscalers and …
TL;DR For logistics companies, delivery services, and fleet managers, routing is the heart of the business. However, using the Google Maps Directions …
TL;DR Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new standard, but using cloud APIs like OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic comes with a significant catch: data …
TL;DR Every online shop, logistics app, and fleet management system requires geocoding: the conversion of addresses into coordinates (and vice versa). …
Why Regulation is an Architectural Issue Few topics are currently causing as much turmoil in IT as new regulatory requirements. GDPR, NIS-2, DORA, …
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 …
TL;DR In a world where Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace set the standard, companies often pay with their data. The GDPR compliance of US clouds is …
In a perfect world, your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) repository is the absolute “Source of Truth.” Every change to load balancers, DNS …
Preparing for an ISO 27001 audit in many companies still resembles a manual Sisyphean task. For weeks, screenshots of configurations are taken, Excel …
In modern software development, the unsecured handling of credentials—so-called “Hardcoded Secrets” (static secrets) in Git …
The cloud-native landscape has consolidated. While Kubernetes stands as the de facto standard for orchestration, the boundaries of runtime efficiency …
In September 2026, the transition period for the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) ends. What began as a regulatory framework has evolved into the toughest …
How ayedo Guided a System Integrator from Evolved Operations to an Auditable Operations Platform Operating your own data center was long considered a …
Until now, compliance has been the natural enemy of agility in many companies. While software development scales in milliseconds thanks to …
TL;DR Google Analytics, Matomo Cloud and other SaaS tracking tools are problematic from a GDPR perspective: data flows to third parties, cookie …
Data is the gold of modern logistics. Knowing when and where each package is, who calculates the most efficient routes, and who controls the …
In theory, the promise of the cloud is enticing: all data is stored and processed centrally. However, in the highly sensitive environment of a …
For MedTech companies and developers of Digital Health Applications (DiGAs), the path to market is not a sprint but a hurdle race through regulatory …
The digitization of healthcare promises enormous advancements: from telemedicine support to AI-assisted diagnostics and electronic patient records. …
Identity Management as a Control Instrument or Open Infrastructure Identity management is far more than just login and user administration. It …
TL;DR Classic browser-based tracking (‘Client-Side’) is dying. Browser restrictions (ITP), AdBlockers, and GDPR make data collection …
The classic SaaS model is simple: one cloud, one architecture, all customers share the resources. However, as a SaaS provider becomes more successful …
TL;DR ArgoCD has established itself as the industry standard for Continuous Delivery in Kubernetes. By implementing the GitOps paradigm, it …
In 2026, compliance is no longer a “paper tiger.” With regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act or certifications such as ISO 27001 and …
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 …
Kubernetes has long been the standard when it comes to scalable and highly available software platforms. Anyone wanting to operate Kubernetes in the …
The grace period for cybersecurity in the industry is coming to an end. With the new EU directive NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive), …
TL;DR Starting point is a multi-tenant Django SaaS application, which is taken from the first line of code to production operation on the ayedo …
TL;DR Multi-Tenant deployments consolidate many customers in a shared environment with logical isolation (e.g., via namespaces), enabling economies of …
TL;DR Managed Backing Services on the ayedo SDP shift the focus from operations to usage: PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, and Kafka are available as robust, …
Delos Cloud vs. Stackit Workspace – Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing The discussion around digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe is in full …
TL;DR Effective alerting is more than just a few emails at 80% CPU: It requires clean metrics, clear severity levels, thoughtful routing, and …
TL;DR Observability is based on three pillars – metrics, logs, and traces – and is translated into a practical monitoring model for modern, often …
The European AI Act, the first comprehensive regulation for artificial intelligence worldwide, was originally set to come into full effect by August …
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has sent a clear message: it is launching a funding program to retrieve endangered research data from foreign …
TL;DR Guardrails are automated guidelines around your deployments: They prevent typical misconfigurations, enforce security by default, and enhance …
TL;DR GitOps describes an approach where Git serves as the central, versioned source for the desired state of your infrastructure and applications; …
TL;DR Secrets in Git, classic Kubernetes secrets, and manual processes are no longer sufficient for zero-trust requirements and modern regulations. …
TL;DR A modern container registry is now a central compliance tool, especially in the context of the Cyber Resilience Act, NIS-2, and DORA. Harbor …
TL;DR Traditional container builds with Docker Daemon, root privileges, and docker.sock in CI systems pose an unnecessary security risk—especially …
Introduction ayedo specializes in tailored container solutions and operating complex applications, ensuring business-critical software runs reliably …
TL;DR GitLab CI/CD is much more than a build tool: When used correctly, it becomes the central backbone of your delivery process – from commit to …
The introduction of AI browsers like OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet marks the beginning of a new era in human-computer …
TL;DR GitOps with ArgoCD anchors the desired state of your applications and infrastructure in Git, making deployments reproducible, auditable, and …
TL;DR GitLab CI/CD becomes the central orchestrator of your delivery workflow: clearly structured stages (build, test, package, deploy) make your …
TL;DR ohMyHelm is a universal Helm chart wrapper that delivers production-ready workloads without requiring teams to maintain their own templates – …
TL;DR Delivery Operations describe the journey from code in your version control to running workloads in production – including build, test, …
TL;DR Velero is a mature open-source tool for backups, migration scenarios, and disaster recovery in Kubernetes environments – making it a central …
TL;DR Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that allows you to define security and operational policies directly as YAML and enforce them …
TL;DR Keycloak is a mature open-source Identity & Access Management (IAM) solution that supports modern protocols like OAuth2, OpenID Connect …
TL;DR Modern compliance requirements like NIS-2, DORA, and GDPR demand robust, verifiable observability: metrics, logs, and traces must be …
TL;DR Harbor is an open-source container registry (CNCF Graduated Project) that combines registry functionality, security scanning, SBOM generation, …
TL;DR Cilium leverages eBPF to execute network functions directly in the Linux kernel, enabling high-performance, identity-based networking for modern …
TL;DR The ayedo Kubernetes Distribution offers two distinct operational variants: Loopback for European public clouds and a k3s-based solution for …
TL;DR The ayedo Software Delivery Platform combines a production-ready Kubernetes distribution, the automation framework Polycrate, and the Helm …
TL;DR Deterministic security checks in the cloud-native environment are based on three pillars: Policy as Code, automated CVE scanning, and SBOM …
TL;DR The Cloud-Native community has established a comprehensive “software logistics” system with OCI, Helm, and the Kubernetes API: …
TL;DR The Cloud Sovereignty Framework of the EU defines what digital sovereignty aims to achieve – the 15-Factor App principles define how a concrete …
TL;DR The modern Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is based on cloud-native architectures, automated pipelines, and a clear separation of …
TL;DR Extending the classic 12-Factor-App with factors 13–15 (API First, Telemetry, Auth) is not a “nice-to-have” but a prerequisite for …
TL;DR Factors 7–12 of the 15-Factor-App primarily address operations, scaling, and maintainability—exactly where modern container platforms like …
TL;DR Factors 1–6 of the 15-Factor App define the internal lifecycle of an application: from the codebase through dependencies and configuration to …
TL;DR Heroku’s 12-Factor App set a clear standard for cloud-compatible applications in 2011 – the 15-Factor App extends this foundation with …
TL;DR The European regulatory landscape is intentionally interconnected: The GDPR forms the foundation, upon which NIS-2, DORA, Cyber Resilience Act, …
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 …
TL;DR The Data Act comes into effect on September 12, 2025, making data portability, cloud switching, and interoperability mandatory requirements – …
With the pilot project to introduce the AI assistant F13, Saarland is taking a remarkably clear path towards a digitally sovereign administration. …
TL;DR The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) mandates manufacturers of “Products with Digital Elements” (PDE) to demonstrate cybersecurity …
TL;DR On January 17, 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will come into effect for financial institutions and key ICT service …
TL;DR NIS-2 expands the scope of EU cybersecurity regulation to 18 sectors, primarily involving medium and large companies in critical and important …
TL;DR The GDPR has required since May 25, 2018, that personal data be protected according to the “Privacy by Design” principle – …
Bonify and the Loss of Digital Identity On October 1, 2025, a data protection incident came to light that further shook trust in the digital credit …
TL;DR The EU has established a coherent framework with GDPR, NIS‑2, DORA, CRA, Data Act, and the Cloud Sovereignty Framework, systematically enhancing …
As of: 18.09.2025 Contact: security@ayedo.de Data Act Overview & Introduction Switching Register This page consolidates ayedo-wide information on …
The European Union is on the verge of enacting one of the most profound intrusions into digital privacy since the inception of the internet. The …
The security of software supply chains is one of the central topics in IT security today. Companies are under increasing pressure to ensure …
The security of the software supply chain is one of the central topics in modern software development. With every new dependency, external artifact, …
Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for operating cloud-native applications. However, with its flexibility comes immense complexity. In …
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 …
The numbers are impressive – and alarming: Over an unsecured Elasticsearch database, 324 million log entries from the streaming platform MagentaTV …
The celebration over the recent “deal” between the EU and Donald Trump seems like a macabre staging. While Brussels publicly celebrates …
70% of European companies consider their dependency on non-European technology too high. This is not a gut feeling, but the result of the current …
A sober look at the average IT infrastructure in German companies reveals that the technological needs are mostly manageable. Active Directory, SQL …
The European Union celebrated itself as a pioneer in regulating digital platforms. With the Digital Markets Act (DMA), it aimed to make a statement: …
How the AI Service Desk of the Federal Network Agency Guides Companies into the Future The European AI Regulation (AI Act) is a milestone: It creates …
Why this alliance is a turning point for Europe’s digital self-determination The headline may seem unremarkable, but its content is not: Two …
What Microsoft’s new Sovereign Cloud really means – and what it doesn’t Microsoft has delivered. At least at first glance. With the …
Satya Nadella introduced a new “Sovereignty Program” for European Microsoft customers in Amsterdam. Three cloud models, Hardware Security …
Cyber risks are increasing. Requirements are rising. And to be taken seriously as an IT service provider, you need more than just good technology. At …
Digital sovereignty refers to an organization’s ability to manage its digital systems, data flows, and technical dependencies in a way that …
Today, every support request influences customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term business success. Unstructured processes, lost tickets, and …
Health Data is a Special Case — Both Technically and Regulatorily Processing health data fundamentally differs from traditional corporate IT. It …
DORA is coming. And this time, it’s not just about a few pretty compliance PDFs. What many banks, payment service providers, and FinTechs are …
OZG Implementation: Software Alone is Not Enough The Online Access Act (OZG) obliges the federal government, states, and municipalities to make …
In most discussions about the Cloud Act, the focus is solely on data location. Data center in Frankfurt? ISO-certified? Encrypted? Sounds good. From …
Technological Independence Begins in the Data Center: Why We Rely on European Network Technology Digital sovereignty doesn’t start with legal …
A Technical Project That Raises Political Questions The announcement initially sounded straightforward: The Bundeswehr will build its private cloud …
The Cloud Loses Its Innocence The cloud was once the epitome of efficiency, scalability, and digital transformation. However, the reality has caught …
A senior investigator of the International Criminal Court loses access to his emails – because a US President imposes sanctions. Microsoft complies. …
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 …
The new supplementalGroupsPolicy feature was introduced as an optional alpha feature in Kubernetes v1.31 and has now moved to beta in v1.33. The …
CVE shutdown averted – but Europe is charting its own course. With the new vulnerability database from ENISA, the EU is strengthening its digital …
The US funding for the CVE list has been stopped with immediate effect—potentially dramatic consequences for global IT security. Why Europe must now …
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 …
An effective way to minimize these risks is through Cyber Risk Assessment. In this blog post, you will learn what Cyber Risk Assessment is, why it is …
Compliance Made Easy: ISO27001 as the Key to Regulatory Compliance Meeting legal requirements and data protection regulations is a constant challenge …
Protecting sensitive data is of utmost importance. A Cyber Risk Check is an effective tool to assess and improve your company’s security …
Cybersecurity threats are constantly increasing, and companies face the challenge of protecting their sensitive data. A Cyber Risk Assessment is an …
The Impact of ISO 27001 Certification on Data Protection and Data Integrity Data breaches and cyber-attacks are ubiquitous threats that can affect …
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 …
Why ISO 27001 is Important for Businesses of All Sizes Information security is a central concern for businesses. From small start-ups to large …
The digital transformation not only brings advantages but also new challenges in the field of cybersecurity. To address these challenges and ensure …
ISO 27001: The Gold Standard for Information Security – What Does It Mean for Your Business? Today, more than ever, companies must protect their …
The Kubernetes community has taken a crucial step towards improving transparency and traceability of its activities. With the introduction of the …
Note: Our Sovereignty Check is currently only available in German. The assessment, score certificate and all recommendations are provided in German …