Fun fact: to get your software or service approved to be used by US government agencies wich pay nice licensing fees, your software must run self-hosted. This means on the client infrastructure, without relying on any 3rd party services from microsoft, google, amazon etc.
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That's rich coming from the country that does the exact same shit through companies like Otto and MediaMarkt.
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Can't corroborate from my personal perspective. If anything it seems that the EU proving to be entirely toothless and fundamentally unwilling to do anything other than fold completely flat for Trump has emboldened the industry reliance on US public clouds for upcoming projects.
Now I don't work on the business side so I can't speak to exact customer pressure/feedback, but what am I supposed to say to a project manager who defaults to Azure/AWS for hosting a new product? It's more convenient and reliable than the alternatives, and there is no structural risk to that decision given that the EU would sooner get rid of the GDPR than admit that user data isn't secure on US servers.
At this point I almost feel like I should wear a tinfoil hat to suggest using an indigenous public cloud provider.