The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
Yeah, that just doesn’t scale. Don’t get me wrong, what you do works and is good, but you (probably) don’t have an off site backup or 100TB of customer data, that is needed in 17 countries accessed by over 15.000 employees.
I’m not saying, that you need a public cloud provider for that, there are other companies, that do these kinds of things, but it is more comfortable and as with SAP no manager has ever been fired for proposing using Microsoft.
It’s not like we don’t have datacenters and server providers in the eu. We have hetzner, OVH and Aruba (ew)
Yes, but there are even more smaller companies doing that and in the past a lot of companies did that themselves (if big enough) but “the cloud”
isseems just so convenient, that they don’t want that anymore.