Sovereignty Needs an Exit Strategy — PostgreSQL Makes It Possible
Recent reporting on a statement by the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) highlights a growing risk that European organisations can no longer ignore: digital services can be restricted, disrupted, or even shut off due to political decisions beyond Europe’s control.
Whether it’s communication tools, cloud platforms, or critical business applications — the message is clear: digital dependencies can quickly become operational risk for civil society organisations, public administration, and businesses across Europe.
Sovereignty is not just about what you use — it’s about how you run it
Choosing open source is an important step — but true digital sovereignty goes further. It’s about operational control: where your systems run, who can access them, how changes are managed, and whether you can continue operating if external conditions change.
This includes a realistic look at vendor dependencies, infrastructure choices, and long-term maintainability — especially for the systems that store and power your most critical data.
Keep your exit strategy: portability matters
Sovereign IT means being able to adapt. When systems are built around closed, tightly coupled services, switching providers can become slow, costly, and risky.
Open source solutions like PostgreSQL help organisations preserve flexibility. They enable teams to choose the deployment model that fits their requirements — on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid — without being locked into one vendor’s roadmap, pricing, or policies.
Multicloud readiness makes sovereignty practical
Digital sovereignty requires freedom of infrastructure choice. Multicloud readiness helps organisations reduce dependency on any single provider and maintain a credible exit strategy. It enables teams to place workloads according to compliance and data residency needs — including hybrid architectures and EU-only deployments.
It also strengthens operational resilience by reducing single points of failure and supporting phased migrations without disruption. Combined with PostgreSQL as an open source foundation, this makes sovereignty a practical and operational reality.
Sovereignty is also resilience and continuity
Digital sovereignty isn’t only about independence — it’s also about ensuring your systems remain reliable under pressure. That means having robust operational practices in place: backups, recovery strategies, high availability, and monitoring.
Because in the real world, disruptions don’t only come from politics. They also come from outages, incidents, human error, and unexpected scaling challenges. A sovereign stack must be one you can operate, recover, and trust.
Data Egret supports sovereignty with open source PostgreSQL
At Data Egret, we welcome OSBA’s call for action. As a PostgreSQL-focused company, we’re proud to support organisations that choose sovereignty by building on open source databases.
PostgreSQL is battle-tested in mission-critical workloads and, being open source, it provides the transparency and independence organisations need. But open source success doesn’t happen automatically: it requires strong architecture, reliable operations, and practical expertise.
That’s where we help: enabling teams to run PostgreSQL securely, efficiently, and sustainably — so sovereignty becomes not just an idea, but a working reality.
