EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive government data, sources tell CNBC

I was having this conversation at work recently and imo is nonsensical to put all of a companies computing platform into the hands of another company. That goes doubly for governments and foreign companies, trump has simply highlighted the issue.

Who owns the remaining 20%? For those who want avoid the big 3, where do we go?

Defense industry as well.

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From the beginning there have been limits on classified information, which had to be enforced on a country/institution level. Then GDPR set certain limits on personal information, regulated on an EU level. When the EU talks about digital sovereignty, they now also include data which in itself is not classified, or personal information, but data which must be governed locally to ensure access and recovery in times of crisis or war. This is already enacted in many EU countries on a per institution level. They are now suggesting that the EU will formally declare certain sector as always being applicable for this. This would immediately force an exit from all deals that are in the wrong for all EU organizations covered by certain national preparedness acts. For example, consider that overnight 80+% of organizations will have to move away from any non-EU tech that supports salary payments and financial transfers. Or relying on Teams for communication or perhaps even Exchange servers. Or perhaps even Windows Server software for handling such data.

*Now?* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Record_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Orlando_Letelier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponsored_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States edit: no country is free of atrocities at one point or another, but what irks me is the "American Exceptionalism" that makes 'Muricans (particularly WASP males) act like their shit don't stink and they're the chosen ones like they're Homelander. A lot of people first learned about the Tulsa race massacre from the Watchmen and/or Lovecraft Country TV shows. Like, it's scary how willfully ignorant the people of the USA are about the horrors their own government inflicted upon its own citizens, let alone the rest of the world. Signed, a Third Worlder that lives in a country that *still* is messed up from the USA meddling in its politics decades ago. edit 2: A small TL;DR for those in a hurry: * The USA experimented on babies and pregnant women by injecting them with radioactive substances * The USA military experimented with syphilis on black people (surprise surprise) and withdrew treatment when antibiotics were discovered * The USA toppled democratic governments, and assassinated (or assisted in the killing of) journalists and diplomats * The USA funded terrorist organizations by selling cocaine in impoverished (AKA black) neighborhoods * The USA hasn't officially declared war since WWII, so the Korean, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, etc... aren't "wars"... seems familiar with a certain "Special military operation".

Which one, the one who can't do his job because he only knows how to use aws, azure or google, or the one who told "I wouldn't to that, with that we will be dependent from services that can go offline or increase prices whenever they want"?

1 man, the entire party that silently (or overtly) supports him and the 70 odd million Americans who voted for him. He's a symptom, not the disease.

You can't force the private sector, it's still a free market economy. First we need to get our own services up to speed, then (or better now) we can start taxing US services to ensure our services are competitive. Biggest issue will be to offer seemless migration and be scalable according to business demand.