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DarrenDev 4 hours ago

EU sovereign clouds are taking off right now - especially when it comes to sensitive data (government, healthcare, etc.). Lots of players moving into the space. The common denominator - nothing touches the US.

AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Schwarz Digits, SAP

easton 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Requiring that you believe those companies that they won’t hand the keys over to the US at the first ask.

Like, the critical problem with the AWS sovereign pitch is that you must believe that they won’t give the keys to the US, and they also won’t give the source code that’s hosted in the US to the government either for them to find vulnerabilities in. I don’t know if that’s good enough unless you just need the data to stay in the EU and you don’t care if another country sees it.

I know they probably did some work on it (what if primary AWS goes rogue and the EU entity must work without it) but I don’t know if they explained how they’re safe to the public.

jacquesm 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The harder problem here is that any real EU sovereign platform would have to come with ironclad guarantees that it isn't going to be directly or indirectly sold to a US party. And when enough customers move that marketshare is affected the bags with money tempting shareholders will get larger and larger.

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

You can strike at least four of those.

martin_a 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle

What? Those are US companies, they will have to give out your data under the Cloud Act. Only Schwarz and SAP are free from that by being German companies.

everfrustrated 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Only Schwarz and SAP are free from that by being German companies.

Not true. You also have to be sure that the company directors will never travel to the US even for a holiday or any third party country that would uphold an extradition request from the US.

It's just email. Nobody is going to jail to protect your email.

If you care that much run your own email server.