Schlomo Schapiro

We celebrate our "Cloud First" strategies and lull ourselves into a false sense of security because our contracts guarantee us "ownership" of the data. But when the plug is pulled - whether by technical outages, geopolitical tensions, or a blocked credit card - the brutal truth is revealed: We have ownership, but we do not have possession. We are tenants in our own business, and the landlord has changed the locks. Digital sovereignty does not mean avoiding the cloud. It means having the choice and the ability to leave or continue operations at any time, even if the cloud is no longer there. In this talk, we dismantle the "Sovereignty Illusion" of modern IT architectures. We expose why SaaS services are technically often "No-Restore" environments and why regulatory compliance (DORA, NIS2) is no guarantee of actual operational capability. The solution is surprisingly pragmatic: We use classic Backup and Disas...

(Joint publishing with my work blog at tkt.dev ) Do you use SaaS Tools? I'd be surprised if not. How many of your SaaS tools provide you an automated full backup of your own data? Probably few to none. Do you want to have a backup or export of your own data? Yes, probably you do (and I want to have that for sure!). In the past, the conversation was over at this point. The SaaS vendor in question doesn't provide an automated backup or export for our data, and that is it. The reason for our capitulation in face of the sad facts is that creating a backup tool for every single SaaS vendor we use was simply way too expensive and not feasible. Today, with the friendly help of LLMs and vibe coding, the conversation is not over and we can simply help ourselves. Many SaaS offerings do have APIs and grant low-level access to our data, they just didn't bother to implement a backup and restore function. For LLMs, create a tool to download all data via ...