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
- Hvor ble det av den røde telefonen? Én feil hos Telenor. Stans i togtrafikken over hele Norge. Hva kostet egentlig denne torsdagen?
- Nazi Songs, “I Am Gay” Emails and Nobody in Charge at BGP.Exchange BGP.Exchange’s website remains defaced. Member-linked contact data were used in authenticated campaigns, the domain was transferred between registrars, and its current DNS delegates email signing to a Microsoft 365 tenant whose original domain prefix is “furriesfun”. The service’s visible PeeringDB footprint includes about 510 participant networks, but the number of confirmed victims remains unknown.
- Why Europe still needs its own dynamic DNS infrastructure Dynamic DNS is old, quiet infrastructure—and much of it is still controlled outside Europe. Here is why we built Dynway as an open European alternative.