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Minimum Viable Sovereignty & The True Cost of Cloud Dependency

Minimum Viable Sovereignty & The True Cost of Cloud Dependency

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Live from meshcloud Con 2026, this panel breaks down "Minimum
Viable Sovereignty" (MVS) as a practical, actionable approach to
digital sovereignty.

Julia Pergande (Microfin), Andre Alfter
(Bechtle), and Eric (RheinEnergie)
detail why sovereignty is a testable capability rather than just
a provider attribute.

The conversation addresses how to assess risks for critical
applications, calculate the hidden costs of vendor lock-in, and
use platform engineering abstraction layers to retain control
over IT delivery chains.

Portability vs. Switchability: Why simply
moving workloads isn't enough to guarantee independence.

Cost of Dependency: How to price the
strategic risk of vendor lock-in against the standard
infrastructure bill.

Procurement & Governance: Leveraging
public sector frameworks like EVB-IT to bake sovereignty
requirements into enterprise contracts.

Pulling the Plug: Using tabletop testing to
expose overlooked ecosystem dependencies, including identity
providers and DNS.