Sovereign cloud services are slowly but surely taking shape. Over the coming months and years, services from both national and global hyperscalers will increasingly become available, whilst the public sector’s sovereign cloud services are also becoming more concrete. How do these services differ? Which issues appear to have been resolved and which remain unresolved? Where do the service offering and operating model on the provider side still need to be refined and developed, and where do the public sector and its IT service providers still have work to do? A review of the current situation and an outlook from various perspectives.