EU Data Act Compliance — LayerOps
Use Case
EU Data Act Compliance
EU Regulation 2023/2854 (Data Act) enforces cloud portability, interoperability and the elimination of exit fees — starting 2025. LayerOps is built to meet these requirements by design.
Regulatory context
A regulation that changes the rules of cloud
The Data Act imposes new obligations on cloud providers: full data portability, standardized APIs, documented migration procedures, and the progressive elimination of exit fees — reaching zero by 2027. Organizations using cloud services must ensure their infrastructure allows switching providers without friction.
Key obligations
What the Data Act requires from cloud users
Full data portability
All usage data, metadata, configurations, logs, images, snapshots, volumes and config files (YAML, Docker Compose) must be exportable at any time.
Standardized formats
Data must be exportable in structured, widely used, machine-readable formats. Providers must supply API documentation, architecture diagrams and migration procedures.
Zero exit fees by 2027
Providers can no longer charge fees for data copying, portability or migration to a competitor. Only actual bandwidth costs are allowed through January 2027 — then exit fees drop to zero.
Interoperability
Documented, standardized APIs are mandatory. Automated export/import mechanisms and market-compatible interfaces must be provided by all cloud service providers.
Seamless portability
Switch providers without friction
LayerOps orchestrates container deployments independently of any single provider. Your configurations, volumes, and application state can be migrated between providers — or run simultaneously across multiple clouds. No proprietary lock-in, no rewriting infrastructure code, no data trapped in a single vendor's ecosystem.
Operational resilience
Multi-cloud by default, not by exception
The Data Act requires that services support simultaneous use of multiple cloud environments and data replication across providers. LayerOps delivers this natively — deploy across hyperscalers, sovereign clouds, SecNumCloud-certified providers and on-premise infrastructure from a single platform, with cross-provider replication and failover built in.
How LayerOps responds
Data Act compliance, built into the platform
Provider-agnostic orchestration
Deploy the same workload on AWS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale or on-premise — without changing a single line of configuration.
Exportable everything
Configurations, environment variables, secrets, volumes and deployment state are always portable. No proprietary formats, no hidden dependencies.
S3-compatible storage
Object storage is accessed through standard S3 APIs, making data portable across any S3-compatible provider — from AWS to MinIO to OVHcloud.
Instant failover
If a provider fails or becomes unsuitable, redeploy your services to another cloud in minutes — not weeks. No contractual barriers, no technical lock-in.
Prepare your infrastructure for the Data Act
Contact our team to assess your Data Act readiness and plan your multi-cloud strategy.