Desai: Large Paris Enterprise Refuses Public Cloud Over French Sovereignty Rules
CJ Desai · Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jul 20, 2026 · at 6:57
MongoDB CEO CJ Desai explains enterprise customer pushback against public cloud migration due to European data sovereignty rules.
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“Yesterday I was with a customer, and they said, hey, I just want to tell you, we are not, and it's a large customer based in Paris, we are not going to move our workloads to public cloud. We are going to run it on-prem. Data sovereignty is highest priority. French regulations forces us to have that as the highest priority, and MongoDB has to work within our On-prem environment for a lack of better term, which we do.”
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