“Imagine waking up to the news that Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have been ordered by the U.S. government to cease providing their IT services to Europe. No more Azure, no more Google Cloud, no more AWS. The fallout would be immediate and catastrophic for countless European businesses, exposing a deep dependency that few truly acknowledge.”
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/what-if-us-cut-off-big-tech-from-europe.md
Yes, yes, YES I have been saying this for years!
The Europe's brain-dead reliance on resources in the USA is criminally stupid and utterly irresponsible!
In the event of the current conflict spreading from Ukraine to elsewhere in Europe, one of the first things Russia will do is to cut the transatlantic data cables linking Europe with the USA.
@Paulos_the_fog @urlyman That would not destroy US hyperscalar hosting in Europe.
It was known during Brexit negotiations, when Jacob Rees-Mogg was telling the Irish to "know their place", that almost half of UK govt cloud-hosted services were... in Ireland.
I am told that some of the hosting in Europe requires access to US servers just to operate!
@Paulos_the_fog @urlyman Very likely for things like authentication and issuance of decryption keys, but the traffic involved is minimal. On the other hand some businesses are all in on using only US hosted services and have no local infrastructure at all (just PCs on desks). Microsoft Ireland eg. (!)