SUSE Offers Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment
SUSE has created a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment tool aimed at helping organizations identify gaps in their digital strategy.
This web-based, self-service assessment tool lets organizations quickly see how their infrastructure measures up against the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, providing an analysis that includes:
- Overall sovereignty score (0-100%)
- Individual scores per area
- Critical violation warnings
- Prioritized gap analysis
- SUSE solution recommendations
“Most organizations struggle to bridge the gap between policy and production,” says Andreas Prins, head of Global Sovereign Solutions at SUSE, but the Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment “gives words to an abstract principle and gives them verified open source pathways to make it resilient.”
Features include:
- The SEAL benchmark: Maps the organization to one of five Sovereignty Effective Assurance Levels (SEAL 0-4). This creates a common language for organizations to discuss risk (e.g., "We are currently SEAL-1, but our public sector contracts require SEAL-3").
- Weighted risk analysis: The tool weighs eight sovereignty objectives (SOVs), prioritizing supply chain and operational autonomy.
- Trust-based engagement: Results are stored only in the user’s browser.
Check out this video walkthrough to see how the assessment works and learn more at SUSE.
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