They literally reject your emails. There is also nothing you can do if ms/google black lists you.
The only real solution for EU is to ban the operations of Google and Microsoft. China style. So that their ecosystem can breath again.
On their iPhones with Apple IDs.
It's not like suddenly your user base(national population) could double overnight and you need such levels of scalability.
* clear out a supply closet, buy 12 new machines to put in it, and idle them for 97% of the year
* ask 12 employees to please deliver their computers to the supply closet on the last Friday of each month
* email Emmanuel Macron asking him to find another team who already cleared out their supply closet with spare cycles
Or do you just use the cloud and not have to solve an operational challenge every time you have a new idea? (The actual pre-cloud status quo was that most people simply couldn't implement any idea that would require more than 1 personal computer.)
And the answer is, only a very select gov clients have the $ and the skills to do it
Do people then null route all the CIDR blocks in the US and all US based CDN's? Has anyone been daring enough to try this yet? I predict DNS to be the first single point of success even assuming one uses a EU specific TLD for all domains.
It needs the cooperation of member states to implement something like this. The EU cannot really force any large state to do anything - IIRC France broke EU rules on national debt or similar and nothing could be done.
I agree that Hetzner isn’t it, they struggle at the object store step apparently, so it’s quite a long road ahead for them.
From my customer point of view, I think scaleway may be the most qualified but I’m not sure they can scale and step up.
They simply can't. It would have happened by now.
Now, if there was a market that were prohibited from using US cloud providers that would give EU providers an actual way to move upmarket.
Also they speak the language of their competitor, which deludes some into thinking that U.S. interests are the same as EU ones.
During the Schröder/Chirac era it wasn't as bad. Only the UK was completely captured under Blair (perhaps the common language played a role there, too).
We’re only 18months into realising and having clear evidence that the US is an untrustworthy partner and in fact actively hostile to European interests. Hopefully the process speeds up from here, now that we don’t need to pretend we can ever trust the US.
I am not even sure what could be done to change this. We have democratic elections, people managing the country are at least formally qualified but they sit in the central Venn diagram intersection above.
One of the reasons for the technical dependence is that huge gap between the ones who understand how to architecture the country or EU information systems, and the ones who make the decision.
Remember that Amazon used AWS to spy on other companies when they were trying to enter new markets. How f-g naive are you to think your information is safe just because you signed a contract?
What in the world let the EU countries into this situation.
The US serpent's propaganda that played the EU into being weaker and dependent until the US no longer needs us (you are here now) with the ultimate goal of extorting as much as possible on the way out. Shame on us for falling for it
Imperative to stop the data leak this month (Maj 2026).
