Comment by Havoc
3 hours ago
The whole concept of big cloud somehow setting up sovereign clouds in Europe seems incredibly naive to me.
Every AWS employee knows where his bread is buttered - Seattle not Brussels
3 hours ago
The whole concept of big cloud somehow setting up sovereign clouds in Europe seems incredibly naive to me.
Every AWS employee knows where his bread is buttered - Seattle not Brussels
Apparently someone buys it, otherwise AWS would not invest 8+ billions in Germany: https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-plans-to-invest-7-8-...
"If it's certified, it must be good".
They buy it because it's enough to tick the corporate compliance box. Decisions made by people that don't actually give a F
Yup. I always thought it was a way just to get business in EU. Do some performative dance of "hey, look! a separate DC building with EU employees only" and then hope nobody would ask too many questions.
Then the next level is regulators in EU also have to care and can't just say "ok, you have a separate DC building with EU employees only. Good. My job is done, I checked" and move on.
Yep when the CIA calls every American salutes and follows orders.
Well no, but Bezos, Zuckerberg and Tim Apple will come grovelling when they are called... that's all it takes.
If you do something that the EU doesn't like it's response will be relatively rational and proportional. While the US government is currently run by unpredictable and volatile people. So risk/reward wise it's rather obvious whose orders they will be following.
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