In brief: Secunet and Cloudflare are planning sovereign cloud offerings for Germany and Europe, though concrete technical and legal details are still pending.
Secunet and Cloudflare intend to jointly develop cloud offerings for German and European customers based on a European operating model. Neither company has yet published concrete technical or contractual details.
Secunet, an IT security company with federal government participation, and the US provider Cloudflare have announced a collaboration aimed at cloud offerings for the German and European market. The joint operating model is intended to be European in orientation. Both companies name digital sovereignty, cyber resilience, and alignment with the C3A criteria of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as central themes. No details on specific products, technical implementation, timeline, or locations of data processing are available so far.
For CISOs in government agencies and regulated industries, the announcement is relevant insofar as it forms part of a series of initiatives aimed at reducing dependence on non-European hyperscalers. The reference to the BSI C3A criteria signals an intent to align with established requirements for cloud security in government and critical environments. However, since Cloudflare, as a US company, is subject to US law, it remains open how far the intended sovereignty will extend in practical terms — for instance, with regard to access rights, operational responsibility, and legal control over the infrastructure.
The announcement currently entails no immediate need for action in security planning. Those responsible should monitor further concretization of the offering, in particular statements on data location, the legal structure of the operating model, and possible certification against BSI criteria, before conducting an assessment for their own procurement or migration context.
Source: www.security-insider.de · Published August 3, 2026
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