In June 2025, Microsoft France's legal director was asked under oath whether he could guarantee French data would never be handed to US authorities. He said no. It wasn't a scandal. It was a clarification, and Brussels heard it.
AWS built a physically separate cloud in Brandenburg with its own IAM, billing, and EU-only operators. It's the most serious sovereignty engineering a hyperscaler has shipped, and the question that matters about it is legal, not technical.
One reference app, four platforms, list prices only. Around $5 a month on Light Cloud, ~$14 on Render, ~$40 on AWS, and the gap widens the moment you add a staging environment. We show the arithmetic, and where the others still have an edge.
Deploying to eu-central-1 makes you compliant with almost nothing. Jurisdiction follows the company that controls your data, not the building that houses it, and a growing amount of sovereignty marketing depends on you confusing the two.
Every pre-seed deck leads with a growth chart, and most of those charts are statistical noise. Here are the numbers we actually watch: time-to-first-deploy, activation, and gross margin per workload type, and why.
Can a two-person company be trusted with your production workloads? That question deserves specific answers instead of vibes. Here's our threat model, what's done, and what honestly isn't.
The decade that moved email, docs, design, and project management into the browser left the tools developers live in untouched. Every major development environment is a desktop app. ICE is one on purpose.
Facebook figured this out in 2015: config errors were a major source of outages, and their answer was to compile configuration from source and model its dependencies. A decade later, most of us still review the characters instead of the structure.
A full, disposable copy of your app for every branch sounds expensive until you see the meter. Here's the arithmetic that gets a preview environment to about three cents, and the engineering that keeps it there.