Over the past decade, public cloud platforms have transformed how organizations operate. Enterprises have gained unprecedented speed and scalability, governments have accelerated digital public services, financial institutions have modernized core systems, and telecommunications and critical infrastructure providers have embraced cloud-native architectures to improve efficiency and agility. Yet alongside these gains, a less visible shift has taken place: the growing concentration of digital workloads, data, and operational control within a small number of global cloud hyperscalers.
In this article, we examine the strategic implications of hyperscaler concentration, and what it means for architectural sovereignty, operational control, and long-term resilience.
