Sovereignty is a control plane property
Data residency tells you where bytes are stored. It does not tell you who controls identity, keys, audit evidence and recovery, or whether the operator can move the platform elsewhere.
I write from hands-on experience about how infrastructure systems fit together, where they fail, and what it takes to operate them as one cloud.
Data residency tells you where bytes are stored. It does not tell you who controls identity, keys, audit evidence and recovery, or whether the operator can move the platform elsewhere.