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# Why Digital Sovereignty Remains a Fantasy for Most Companies
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/why-digital-sovereignty-remains-a-fantasy-for-most-companies/
- Published: 2026-09-10T16:13:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T16:13:28.000Z
- Description: Despite rhetorical commitment to reducing vendor lock-in, organizations face brutal economic and technical realities that make switching suppliers prohibitively expensive—and one in ten admit they’re genuinely trapped with no replacement option available.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-brand, vendor lock-in, enterprise strategy, digital sovereignty

Source: [The Register: Biting the hand that feeds](https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/09/10/digital-sovereignty-sounds-great-until-you-try-ditching-your-suppliers/5294997?ref=adjacent.media)

Despite rhetorical commitment to reducing vendor lock-in, organizations face brutal economic and technical realities that make switching suppliers prohibitively expensive—and one in ten admit they're genuinely trapped with no replacement option available. The problem is structural: digital sovereignty requires competitive markets with genuine alternatives, which don't exist in many infrastructure categories. Enterprise software markets have consolidated around switching costs so high that independence has become a privilege rather than a choice, available mainly to the largest players who can absorb the transition expense.