> Digital sovereignty sounds like a buzzword until you think

Sure now just think and give me the reason. All these moving to Europe post is getting tiring. Amazon follows the same EU rules, if not more, than Scaleway.

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kaon_2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Matt Lakeman writes in one of his blogs that wherever he goes, people tend to love the USA. Except in Europe where he faces a constant storm of criticism. And that was before February. Just like you cannot explain the taste of chocolate to someone, it is hardly possible to explain the mental shift that happened everywhere when the US threatened the EU with military invasion. Like a broken egg this is diplomatic damage that cannot be repaired.

If you sell software and you tell your customers and prospects that everything runs in Europe, by European companies, this instills an enormous amount of trust. Risk averse sectors like manufacturing love this, and it will help you gain customers immediately.

So no, these posts are not tiring to many of us. In fact, we are only at the beginning of the beginning because many of us will be making these migrations. I wish things had run a different course.

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YetAnotherNick 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> this instills an enormous amount of trust

So you are saying the reason that it is just perceived better?

Even that's quite debatable as I worked in few European companies and has never faced any backlash for choosing US vendor. Biggest European tech companies like Mistral and Klarna use many US vendors like AWS.

	▲	kaon_2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. It is both a little funny, and true. Often departments don't even want to start a software project if it is being perceived as "legal and IT are going to have all kinds of opinions on this". When we say everything runs in Europe, by European companies, it actually signals "there will be no problem with GDPR and data sensitivity, and your legal and IT departments won't complain, and the CEO will love it".

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1234letshaveatw 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nah, they are tiring

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bergheim 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Second paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

	▲	YetAnotherNick 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Later in the article: > The act is not limited to companies based in the United States.

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blitzar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> if not more

more mean the US rules that hoover up all the data for the government