🔁 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:
- ✅ Portability by design
→ Services are deployed as standardized containers, using infrastructure-as-code and open orchestration tools. - 🌍 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)
- 🧩 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.
Worried about the American cloud?
LayerOps offers you a sovereign, multi-vendor, secure European alternative.