Does your vendor claim digital sovereignty? Ask for their SEAL assessment and the evidence behind it. A sovereignty claim without an assessment is not just shady marketing. It can be a deliberate attempt to steer procurement teams in the wrong direction.

For example: there is a huge difference between EU-hosted and EU-owned. EU-hosted means the servers stand in Europe, but the company behind them falls under US jurisdiction, and so does your data. That is not digital sovereignty. EU-owned, EU-operated and EU-controlled is.

Jet-Stream scores an average of 3.75 out of 4 on the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL): level 4 on six of the eight objectives and level 3 on the remaining two. To put that in perspective: level 3 is a strong score in itself. It is at level 2 that an objective becomes a knock-out criterium.

One of our level 3 scores is ironically a conscious trade-off: our Canadian video processing hardware, which is also why we score highest on environmental sustainability. You can choose not to use it. The other objective moves to level 4 in Q4, bringing our average to 3.875.

Formal sovereignty is the floor for us, not the ceiling. Sovereignty is the core of how we have run the company, many years before sovereignty became a hot topic.

Our platform is open, and every component (such as transcoders, packagers, origins, CDNs, players, analytics) in it can be replaced by another service, by one of your own choice for example. We run multiple CDNs, also EU sovereign CDNs, so you can switch suppliers whenever you choose. There is no lock-in, not even to us. No more black boxes.

Our SEAL assessment and the supporting evidence are ready and waiting. Ask us.

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