Suse has unveiled a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment tool, with the intention of helping customers understand the gaps in their compliance with the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework.

Launched January 29, the tool is a web-based, self-service discovery platform designed to evaluate an organization’s cloud infrastructure against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. The assessment provides an objective Sovereignty Effective Assurance Levels (SEAL) score, which measures the organization’s sovereignty on the eight objectives defined by the framework. The tool also provides a roadmap for closing the compliance gap by leveraging Suse solutions and its European partner ecosystem.

Key features of Suse’s tool include:

• The SEAL benchmark, which maps the organization to one of five SEAL levels, from No Sovereignty to Full Digital Sovereignty.
• Weighted risk analysis, which weighs eight sovereignty objectives (SOVs), prioritizing supply chain (20%) and operational autonomy (15%), showing where the most critical vulnerabilities lie.
• Trust-based engagement, with results stored in the user’s browser.
• Consultative roadmap, a concrete improvement plan that can be downloaded as a PDF.

In explaining the assessment, Suse noted that industry research firm Forrester expects digital and AI sovereignty to drive a private cloud renaissance with doubled year-on-year growth in 2026. With the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework now introduced, organizations risk contract ineligibility without proven digital sovereignty. The Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment simplifies this journey, Suse said.