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Ultimate Sovereignty Clause

Clever Cloud introduces the Ultimate Sovereignty Clause to guarantee lasting digital sovereignty

Clever Cloud is introducing the Ultimate Sovereignty Clause, a contractual mechanism designed to ensure that a cloud service remains sovereign within a European framework, even if its provider were to come under non-European control.
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Advanced Deployments: Clever Cloud launches a second certification

Clever Cloud announces the launch of Advanced Deployments, its new official certification dedicated to advanced deployments on its platform.
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CKE in public beta: managed, sovereign, and properly integrated Kubernetes

Clever Cloud was founded in 2010. At that point, Docker did not exist, and Kubernetes even less. The problem, however, was already there: running our first customers' applications reliably, in isolation, and predictably.
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The DEEP, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud consortium selected to deliver sovereign cloud services for European institutions

Paris – April 17, 2026 – The consortium composed of DEEP by POST Luxembourg Group, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud today announces its selection by the European Commission as part of a major procurement framework to provide sovereign cloud services to the institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union. This contract, with a ceiling of €180 million over six years, marks a significant milestone in the concrete implementation of Europe’s digital sovereignty strategy.
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OpenTofu: the open-source Terraform fork — natively supported on Clever Cloud

In August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform's license. A few weeks later, OpenTofu was born under the Linux Foundation. Here's what it means — and how to use it with the Clever Cloud provider.
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Tools, not rules: why I’ve built issues-helper

A few weeks ago I've open sourced issues-helper. It allows you to easily interact…

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Hooks: thank you captain

We've been quietly rolling out support for hooks during deployments. This may come as a…

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New version of our CLI: clever-tools 0.7.0 released

Since its first release, we've been quietly improving our CLI tool, clever-tools. Today, we've…

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null is not the issue

Nowadays, we know that null is to be avoided. It's been dubbed the billion dollar…

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Introducing Service Dependencies

At Clever Cloud, we've started using microservices before it was cool™. Today we're excited to…

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Why Auto Increment Is A Terrible Idea

As big users of PostgreSQL, we had the opportunity of re-thinking the idioms common in…

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Lambdacon 2015

Here at Clever Cloud, we're enthusiastic users of functional programming. It helps us a lot…

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