LayerOps: A European Alternative to SkySQL for True Portability, Resilience, and Sovereignty

The cloud database market has long been dominated by U.S. providers, offering managed services such as SkySQL. While convenient, these platforms often come with hidden dependencies: vendor lock-in, limited portability, and exposure to extraterritorial laws such as the U.S. CLOUD Act. For European businesses and institutions handling sensitive or strategic data, these risks are no longer acceptable.

LayerOps emerges as a European answer: a Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform that enables organizations to deploy databases and applications across multiple European cloud providers or even private infrastructure—without lock-in, without compromise.

🔄 Portability by design

With LayerOps, services such as PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or MySQL are deployed in a way that remains fully portable across providers. If one cloud provider decides to change its roadmap, discontinue a service, or increase prices, your applications can move seamlessly to another European provider—or even to your own on-premise servers.

This ensures reversibility and freedom of choice, two cornerstones of digital autonomy.

🌐 Multi-provider resilience

Incidents and outages happen, even among hyperscalers. A single cloud is always a single point of failure. LayerOps tackles this by allowing services to run across multiple providers at the same time, with automatic failover mechanisms.

This guarantees continuity of service: if one provider experiences downtime, your services remain available by switching to another. True resilience, not just promises.

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🛡️ Data sovereignty with European providers

Unlike SkySQL and other U.S.-controlled platforms, LayerOps relies on a federation of European cloud providers (OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale, Outscale, Infomaniak, and more). These providers are not subject to extraterritorial legislation such as the CLOUD Act, ensuring that European data remains under European jurisdiction.

For organizations bound by NIS2, GDPR, or sector-specific regulations (finance, healthcare, public sector), this alignment is critical.

🚀 Building a European alternative

LayerOps is more than a technical solution—it’s part of a broader vision:

• Empower European businesses to take back control of their infrastructure.
• Reduce dependency on U.S. hyperscalers by providing a credible alternative.
• Create a federated European cloud ecosystem, combining the strengths of multiple providers rather than relying on a single one.

🌍 Conclusion

SkySQL and similar managed services may look convenient, but convenience without sovereignty and resilience comes at a cost.

With LayerOps, Europe now has an alternative: a platform that makes portability, multi-cloud resilience, and sovereignty operational realities. It is a step toward a competitive, independent, and federated European cloud.

👉 Discover more at https://www.layerops.io