Your Real-Time Data Doesn't Belong in American Cloud Hands

Data has nationality.

And yours is probably American 🇺🇸 by default.

When your streaming platform runs on AWS, Azure, or GCP:

• Your data is subject to US surveillance laws (CLOUD Act, FISA 702), even in EU regions
• American intelligence agencies can access it without notifying you
• Your GDPR compliance is theater when the platform provider has US headquarters
• EU data centers don't protect you when the company answers to US jurisdiction

Confluent? Databricks? Kinesis? American companies. US jurisdiction. Great tech. Wrong passport.

It's not paranoia. It's the law. The CLOUD Act gives US authorities jurisdiction over data controlled by US companies, regardless of where it's stored.

You didn't build your European business to hand your most sensitive data to a foreign government. But that's exactly what happened.

Ververica: Built in Europe. Governed by Europe. For Europe.

Data sovereignty isn't a checkbox. It's an architecture. Here's what it requires: