The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps on growing. Canadians have boycotted US-made products, anti–Elon Musk posters have appeared across London amid widespread Tesla protests, and European officials have drastically increased military spending as US support for Ukraine falters. Dominant US tech services may be the next focus.
There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the Internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data access fears under the Trump administration.
“There’s a huge appetite in Europe to de-risk or decouple the over-dependence on US tech companies, because there is a concern that they could be weaponized against European interests,” says Marietje Schaake, a nonresident fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and a former decadelong member of the European Parliament.
The whole world needs to de risk from US companies. The right wing authoritarianism is here to stay.
Ooops@feddit.org 3 days ago
Wouldn’t it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies “looking for alternatives” was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
Yeah, unfortunately the cloud providers did exactly what they wanted,put companies into the daunting task of trying to migrate off their platforms. It was designed so that you would slowly become dependent on your provider.
It’s why I push k8s and cloud native everywhere. Never depend on your provider. Hell, span over multiple providers if you can. The only thing I approve of in a manger service is databases, it’s just too easy, but it’s also relatively easy to migrate to a new db provider.