🔁 Building Truly Portable Cloud Services: The European Alternative to Hyperscaler Managed Services

A Strategic Need: Deploy Without Lock-In

As public administrations and European companies accelerate their digital transformation, hyperscaler-managed services (databases, serverless functions, AI, storage, etc.) seem attractive: fast to deploy, low maintenance, well documented.

But behind the convenience lies a deeper issue:
🔒 Growing technological lock-in
📈 Escalating exit costs
❌ Loss of control over infrastructure and data

The Alternative: Multicloud & Hybrid-Cloud Services Designed for Portability

There is a better — and more sustainable — approach for Europe. It’s based on three key pillars:

1. ✅ Portability by design
   → Services are deployed as standardized containers, using infrastructure-as-code and open orchestration tools.
2. 🌍 Hybrid and multicloud infrastructure
   → Seamlessly combine:
   • European public cloud providers (OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale, Infomaniak, Outscale…)
   • Private or on-premise resources (bare-metal servers, GPU farms, regional public datacenters)
3. 🧩 Interoperability and open standards
   → Open APIs, declarative YAML-based deployments, unified monitoring, and GitOps compatibility.

LayerOps: A Concrete Solution Serving Interoperable Europe

The LayerOps platform is designed to deliver digital independence — without sacrificing ease of use.

It enables users to:

• Deploy services (databases, queues, compute, AI…) without vendor lock-in
• Migrate seamlessly between providers without rebuilding the stack
• Integrate private or sovereign GPU resources for AI/LLM workloads
• Optimize costs via a built-in FinOps engine

By combining sovereignty, resilience, portability, and usability, LayerOps supports the operational ambitions of Interoperable Europe.

A Proposal for Europe’s Digital Infrastructure

If we want a strong European digital future — one that can innovate without becoming dependent — we must:

🔧 Build auto-deployable, sovereign managed services
🤝 Federate a diverse network of trusted European cloud providers
🏛️ Integrate platforms like LayerOps into public digital infrastructure strategies

We believe it is possible to offer the agility of managed cloud services, without relying on a single provider.
And to do so with open, interoperable, reversible building blocks that run on any infrastructure — public or private.

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