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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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From Framework to Impact: Policy Recommendations to Turn CAIDA into a Lever for Operational Digital Sovereignty
Clever Cloud is firmly committed to the principles of digital sovereignty, European values while advocating for a resilient and strategically autonomous digital ecosystem. We believe that Europe must prioritize its digital ecosystem to ensure that businesses and public authorities can operate independently without reliance on inadequate non-European solutions.
Materia KV now speaks GraphQL
You write to Materia KV using a Redis or Valkey client, then access your data through a typed GraphQL endpoint. Same cluster, same token, no synchronization layer in between. Use the best of both worlds depending on your needs. Here’s how it works.
UP Program: Clever Cloud announces its fifth startup selection
With this new batch, Clever Cloud welcomes four startups to the UP Program: Sentibee, Pictaderm, Legaia and Cockpit Agriculture.
Sōzu 2.0 — turning a reverse proxy into a programmable edge
Sōzu is the reverse proxy that sits in front of every application running on Clever Cloud. After eighteen months of work — first the HTTP/2 multiplexer, built on our existing kawa pivot, then almost every other layer of the proxy, and finally a long run in production on the cleverapps.io load balancers — Sōzu 2.0 is out.
K3s vs K8s: What Are the Differences and Which One Should You Choose in 2026?
Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration. But depending on your infrastructure constraints (limited resources, edge computing, IoT, or large-scale enterprise clusters), the distribution you choose can radically change the operational experience. K3s and K8s (upstream Kubernetes) address different needs, even though both share the same CNCF-certified foundation.
How Clever Cloud responds to kernel vulnerabilities
How Clever Cloud reacted to recent kernel vulnerabilities, reduced exposure, and improved its kernel deployment process.