How do you think all of that data used to be managed before we decided the best thing was to trust big tech with everything?

Health data can reside within your hospital's network. Government data within your government's network. Etc,...

I think the point is that your doctor or civil servant or local sushi shop shouldn't have to reach to AWS/GCP/Oracle each time they want to look up an MRI or building permit or loyalty points card status.

"local" is a relative term here.

I don't really intend my services to be used by EU Govt's but rather just individuals/businesses even and if the EU govt. actually requires it at that point, I genuinely don't mind travelling to European and living there if things do come out as this (if EU provides me & maybe my family a visa ie) & am willing to cooperate consultancy work with EU govt. or others as well

My focus was on the more of a Eu-alternatives kind of thing. I want my idea of privacy to be aligned and EU seems perfect for that. I want to provide sustainability in an idea & can establish an EU company or partner up with one.

My question is that I would still live in India for the most part starting out & I might be unable to make an EU company in the start too but if I am required, then I will do so

Aside from this, I am willing to use only EU services internally for my product as well as I mentioned.

is there any way that I can still align myself with the EU-alternatives mission?

Might sound a bit strange but I want to come into Eu but I can't because immigration is hard/expenses and I want to come to Europe when I finally figure out things/have a decent product in the first place.

Some people told me to create an EU company which holds an Indian company as a consultancy firm and you can be part of both and manage to establish a Data sharing policy given that I can access EU data from Indian soil so If I can do something about it.

I am not really familiar with EU laws tho so I am interested to hear more from people actually interested.

I'd look at it in another way, hyperscalers exist due to code contributed from all around the world, often in the form of open source, Europe going closed and competing against the rest of the world (literally) isn't going to be a path forward.

Clients of mine are on hyperscalers due to the ease of deployment,etc but they are focused on lock-in, if ease could be attained in combination with portability then an ecosystem could exist where mid-scaler providers (that exists in abundance in Europe) could have a better chance against the behemoths.

> People from other countries “contributing” technology solutions to European businesses and government is what got Europe into the strange mess they’re in now.

Well, if Europe existed without them, then Europe likely wouldn't have ever home-grown all the advances from the more entrepreneurially-minded countries.

Thanks, good to see EU and India make a deal, might help my idea personally.

But this is the first time I hear someone mention "India-wash" American services exports?

What do you mean in this context? I hope it's nothing deregoratory but I am simply confused by this term.

Personally I meant either hosting open source software or building my own open source software and hosting it for the most part imo.

I don't know what you mean by India-wash though?

Yea probably doesn't make sense for just starting out.

I think this might be the only option available right? Do you know of any other option perhaps cheaper than this?

I think I can only promise at this point that if project becomes worth it ie. makes reasonably lot more than >1500 per year then the project might migrate to as such.

I was seeing an estimates of 300$-400$ on internet and I assumed that was expensive (here, the MSME's don't even require a company formation itself & you get benefits of payment dispute collection & investment from govts directly and lower rate loans and you can get it all online just using aadhaar card which everyone has)

LLC's are a bit of a mess with accounting (I actually wanted to be chartered accountant during my middle school so I saw they make a bank in fees comparatively too) but its still pretty reasonable.

Anyways, what would be the best bet, would this still be the best bet or is there anything which can allow for something say cheaper/easier? Would say having an European co-founder might help comparatively in the fees/other options?

I have ublock origin. It's impossible to use the internet without it. Removing the top layer works for fixing mouse clicks, but in cases like these I rather just drop the whole website without reading.

I mean, if a project is not able to get a functioning website, then well...

Cookie banner problem as the sibling comment says.

So much for EU-something, riddled with EU-problems.