Knut Michael Haugland
Founder building European cloud infrastructure with a focus on control, transparency and open systems.
About
I build cloud infrastructure in Europe, with a focus on control, transparency and long-term reliability.
I am the founder of WAYSCloud, where we design and operate infrastructure that remains within European jurisdictions and under customer control — without dependency on external platforms.
I care deeply about how infrastructure is built, who controls it, and what assumptions it is based on. For me, this is not just technical — it is about trust, responsibility and long-term sovereignty.
My work sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, operational security and digital sovereignty. I focus on how systems behave under real-world conditions, not just how they are designed on paper.
I believe Europe needs infrastructure that is transparent, predictable and independent — not only for compliance, but for resilience and long-term trust.
I write about the decisions, trade-offs and structures behind building and operating infrastructure at scale — based on practical experience, not theory.
I write primarily in English, with a focus on European infrastructure, sovereignty and systems.
Latest writing
- Your Connected Devices May Already Be Part of the Next Cyberattack On 30 June 2026, WAYSCloud stopped a coordinated registration campaign against meil — no accounts compromised, no email accessed. The method mattered more than the impact: identity, verification and network geography split across three countries, routing malicious traffic through the connected devices in ordinary homes.
- When American domestic politics becomes European cloud risk The U.S. Supreme Court’s FTC ruling may sound like American administrative law. For European businesses, it is another reminder that compliance is not the same as control. When transatlantic data-transfer frameworks depend on politically fragile assumptions, European cloud, SaaS, portability and open standards become practical risk management.
- The Last Voice of Europe: When BBC Long Wave Fell Silent On 27 June 2026 the BBC switched off Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz, and almost nobody noticed. The story of one transmitter — and why Europe keeps retiring the robust infrastructure it built to survive war, blackout and the failure of everything else.