Christina Kraus - Sovereignty through Mastery: Building a Multi Cloud IDP for Digital Autonomy

"With the shifting geopolitical landscape, sovereignty has moved from a legal requirement to a core business resilience strategy. However, true sovereignty isn’t achieved by isolation, but through the freedom of choice. In this session, we demonstrate how an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) serves as the operational backbone for this autonomy. We will deep-dive into a production-ready stack that bridges the gap between global hyperscalers and European sovereign clouds, exploring the architectural decisions needed to move beyond fragmented infrastructure and become sovereign by design: The Unified Experience: How to bring separate cloud teams and varying levels of maturity into a single interface, making sovereign options as easy to discover and use as global ones. Designing for Developer Appeal: Why sovereignty fails if it’s a burden. We’ll discuss how to provide ""meaningful choice"" by creating abstractions that make local providers as developer-friendly as hyperscalers. Mastery Over Magic: Why we move away from the myth of ""automatic workload migration"" and focus instead on building the internal capability and technical standards to switch providers whenever the business demands it. Attendees will leave with a practical framework to stop being ""tenants"" of the cloud and start being the masters of their own infrastructure destiny."