Comment by ExoticPearTree

> Just mandate EU countries' public administration to rely exclusively on EU cloud solutions.

This happens already in some areas and it is not cheaper or better. The EU funds national clouds where public institutions use them. What does it mean? VMware with Tanzu or OpenStack. And then some services thrown in to offer some S3 like buckets and that's it. The rest has to be built by the beneficiaries. Servers? Brand names like Lenovo/HP/Dell. Storage? Brand names like NetApp, HP, Dell, Lenovo, 3Par, IBM and the list goes on. Networking? Cisco (mostly), HP/Juniper. Firewalls? Cisco/Fortinet/PaloAlto/CheckPoint/etc.

Basically an enterprise setup masquerading as a cloud offering.

And even if there would be EU wide offerings for such cloud, there's too much money at stake to let institutions from one country buy services from another.