The era of dependency is over. Welcome to Sovereign DBaaS

In 2023, we predicted that sovereignty would become an architectural decision with workload access and portability as core business requirements — we’re glad the market finally caught up.

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The Monolithic Trap: How Today’s Cloud Culture Trades Resilience for Short-Term Profit

BLOG | November 20, 2025 | Vinay Joosery

The end of 2025 marks a turning point in digital maturity. Consumers and enterprises now expect continuous uptime as digital services have effectively become utilities. For sectors that run healthcare, finance, logistics or public services on this critical infrastructure, global downtime is no longer a minor inconvenience, it is a failure of mission‑critical systems…

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DRT Solutions
Viafirma
ABSA
BSrE
NHS
Kimoby
DRT Solutions

100%
Compliant

residing in Sweden

1 Hour

to deploy first cluster

We needed a partner that provided a managed database service while keeping our data within Sweden for compliance reasons. With Severalnines, we get the best of both worlds – a reliable, secure database solution and direct access to knowledgeable support

Stefan Olofsson
CTO
DRT Solutions

Viafirma

100%

Availability

4

On-prem datacenters

Clustercontrol is a very good tool for HA for a database like Postgres, which doesn’t natively allow more than one master node. With this tool, we’ve managed to quickly set up HA without much effort. Setting up a cluster takes a matter of minutes, and the tool itself takes care of everything.

Diego Gil Serrano
IT Manager
Viafirma

ABSA

3,000+

Database nodes

12 countries

with 42,000 employees

ClusterControl enabled us to build automation around the platform for self-service provision while being able to determine the patterns of deployments consistently without DBA involvement.

Kevin Naik
Head of DBaaS
ABSA

BSrE

+30%

uptime

8h / day

operational savings

We are clustering our databases across data centers making managing and deploying the database clusters a challenge.

Rifky Izdihar Haidi
Head of IT Infrastructure and Databases
BSrE

NHS

99.999%

uptime

6-month

project completion

Many of our applications that we use to deliver care to our patients rely on database backends that we host locally. Most of these systems are mission critical and uptime is of utmost importance, as is reliable backup and restoration processes to prevent data loss.
Kimoby

63%

cost savings

50%

improved failover speed

ClusterControl has greatly simplified database management internally. It has made database management more straightforward and intuitive for our team — it has delivered on all our requirements.

Philippe Vezina
Tech Lead
Kimoby