Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The relevance of the study is due to the rapid development of the digital economy and the large-scale implementation of cloud computing, which requires comprehensive legal regulation of the cloud services market. In Ukraine, a significant regulatory imbalance exists: while the public sector is extensively regulated, the private segment remains legally fragmented and vulnerable. The goal is a comprehensive comparative legal analysis of the state of legislative regulation of relations in the field of providing cloud services in Ukraine and the European Union and substantiation of ways to overcome the regulatory imbalance between the public and private sectors. The research employs formal-legal, comparative-legal, systemic-structural, dialectical, and statistical methods. Critical gaps were identified in Ukrainian cloud legislation regarding consumer protection and private business safeguards. Drawing upon EU regulatory standards (including the Digital Services Act and Directive (EU) 2019/770), the study justifies the need to establish mandatory contractual safeguards, standardized Service Level Agreements (SLAs), data portability, and service interoperability within private cloud contracts, thereby mitigating systemic legal imbalances.
Source: Problems of Legality
Author: Ihor Molodchyi
Institution: Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7224800169