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Railway.com spent £8 million annually on Google Cloud. They learned from prior incidents, so they moved workloads to colocation in 2024. Then Google suspended their account without warning.
Why? They kept their control plane with Google.
https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/control-plane-trap/
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The Control Plane Trap: Why Partial Sovereignty Is No Sovereignty
Railway.com kept their control plane with Google Cloud after moving workloads elsewhere. Google suspended the account without warning. The EU is replicating this architecture at policy level. Control plane ownership is the real sovereignty question.