Comment by makeitdouble
3 years ago
GCP and Azure have options to keep all data within the EU, I'm sure AWS has something to at this point. In France GCP is approved for public business, so it seems to be working fine.
On your general point, we're way past the point where a company is allowed to blindly use any random SaaS without caring about what it does with the data or where it goes. The pendulum is clearly swinging back.
> GCP and Azure have options to keep all data within the EU
I wonder how much of a difference this makes, if the DCs still belong to these american companies and this thing exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
GCP made a few adjustments to have something that is compatible with both US laws and the GDPR
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compliance/how-google...
From memory, gov entities also have deeper customizations, and data centers might be separate from customers and the standard Google operation altogether.