Cloud Leadership – How resilient is your cloud strategy?
When applications go down, every minute counts. The cloud delivers speed and innovation – and dependencies. Cloud Leadership means consciously balancing both: Where does SaaS accelerate time-to-market? Where do IaaS/containers ensure exit capability? How do you combine public cloud with Swiss private cloud for compliance and business continuity? Answers, examples and a resilient architecture path in this article.
September 2025, Text: Tanja Dujic and Lukas Hebeisen 3 min
Monday morning, 9 a.m. Suddenly everything stops: applications are unavailable, telephony breaks down, employees can’t work, customers can’t reach anyone. Every minute costs thousands of francs – after just a few hours, losses add up to millions.
What sounds like an exceptional case has long since become reality. New Relic(opens in new tab) reports the median cost of high-impact outages in Germany at USD 2.2 million per hour(opens in new tab) – the highest figure in Europe.
In Switzerland, the 2024 CrowdStrike incident(opens in new tab) made this vulnerability clear: Zurich Airport had to cancel 120 flights; at SWISS, around 9,300 passengers were affected.
The question is no longer: “Do we need the cloud?” It’s: “How resilient is our cloud strategy?”
The Swiss economy is regarded as one of the most stable and crisis-resistant in the world. Yet even the most stable economy needs clear structures and frameworks to build on. Today’s unclear geopolitical environment introduces unpredictability and turbulence into Swiss companies. On top of that come new laws such as the revDSG and a cybersecurity threat landscape that is growing ever more complex.
For companies in Switzerland this means: the cloud is your chance. A chance to create clarity in a business environment shaped by external turbulence.
Cloud Leadership – Conscious choices, calculated risk
The cloud offers innovation, speed and scalability. But it also makes Swiss companies more dependent on hyperscalers, on geopolitical decisions – and ultimately on external attacks.
New laws or sanctions can suddenly force data relocation, drive costs up overnight, or make cloud services in certain regions unavailable.
Cloud resilience and sovereignty are no longer side topics – they are prerequisites for Swiss companies to stay in control.
Cloud Leadership: Balance, not gut feeling
Cloud Leadership is the ability to consciously manage these tensions: Leveraging innovation without giving up freedom.
Achieving speed without losing resilience.It’s about asking the right questions:
- Where do we deliberately use SaaS because time-to-market is critical?
- Where do we stay on IaaS or containers to remain exit-ready?
- How do we combine public cloud with a Swiss private cloud to secure compliance and flexibility?
Cloud Leadership means answering these questions not just technically, but strategically.
Only then does true Cloud Resilience emerge – the ability to remain stable and operational even in crises.
Securing control AND enabling innovation
The geopolitical climate remains tense, cyberattacks are increasing, regulation is becoming more complex. Companies without a resilience strategy for the cloud today risk paralysis tomorrow.
Cloud Leadership means making conscious choices that secure control and enable innovation – so that true cloud resilience emerges.
It’s about securing companies not only technologically, but also strategically – so they remain capable of action even in uncertain times.