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STACKIT 7: Getting Started – Trials, Onboarding, and First Steps STACKIT is an enterprise cloud platform, and its onboarding experience reflects that. Unlike fully self serve cloud providers, where you can have an instance running within minutes of entering a credit card, STACKIT account provisioning goes through a sales and onboarding process. For the target audience, businesses in regulated industries, enterprises with DORA or BSI C5 requirements, and organisations that need documented sovereignty credentials, this is not a drawback. A structured onboarding process gives you a real relationship with STACKIT’s team, documented service agreements, and clear escalation paths. That is

STACKIT 6: for Financial Services and the Public Sector STACKIT’s compliance posture was built for some of the most demanding regulatory environments in Europe. As a result, it is a cloud platform that is particularly well suited to financial services, the public sector, and any organisation where cloud provider compliance is not optional. Financial Services: DORA and ICT Risk The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has applied to EU financial services firms since January 2025. It sets mandatory requirements for ICT risk management, third-party provider oversight, and operational resilience. For financial services organisations using AWS, DORA raises several questions that

STACKIT 5: Migrating from AWS A Practical Checklist Moving from AWS to STACKIT is a planned infrastructure migration, not something you try to force through over a weekend. The process is structured, the risks are manageable, and for most standard workloads the final cutover can usually be measured in minutes rather than hours. This checklist covers the full sequence. One STACKIT-specific note before the phases: STACKIT onboarding is more enterprise-focused than some cloud providers. New customer accounts are provisioned through a STACKIT sales process rather than a fully self-serve sign-up. Please build that into your timeline; account provisioning may take

STACKIT 3: Data Sovereignty, CLOUD Act, and DORA Compliance with STACKIT The compliance case for STACKIT rests on two things: its legal ownership structure and its certifications. This post looks at both what they mean in practice, what they enable, and why they matter for businesses operating in regulated industries. The CLOUD Act and Why Ownership Matters More Than Location The CLOUD Act, or the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, was signed into US law in 2018. It gives US federal authorities the power to compel American companies to produce data held anywhere in the world. The law

STACKIT 2: STACKIT vs AWS — Core Services Compared If you have built your infrastructure on AWS, the first practical question when looking at STACKIT is simple: what replaces what? This post maps STACKIT’s core services against their AWS equivalents. STACKIT does not mirror every service in the AWS catalogue, but for standard production workloads, the coverage is strong. Compute: EC2 → STACKIT Compute Engine STACKIT Compute Engine provides virtual machine instances built on OpenStack Nova. The configuration model is familiar: you choose vCPUs, RAM, and a boot image, much like you would with EC2. Flavours, which are the OpenStack

STACKIT 1: The Case for German Sovereign Cloud — Why STACKIT Exists STACKIT is not a startup cloud provider trying to catch up with AWS on features. It is the cloud infrastructure built and operated by Schwarz Digits, the technology arm of the Schwarz Group, the German company behind Lidl and Kaufland. The Schwarz Group operates in 32 countries, serves hundreds of millions of customers each year, and processes a volume of transactions that puts it among the largest IT operators in Europe. STACKIT was built to support that scale, under German law and on German soil. Opening it up