Last month, InfoQ had a discussion about cloud vendors in Europe and the trade-off between sovereignty and innovation: by which they mean choosing between storing data in the EU with EU vendors, versus fully packaged Amazon services with unclear storage policies.
The discussion occurred on the InfoQ podcast.
Erik Steiger, senior software and AI engineer, comments:
There are good bare metal servers that we can use in the EU. The problem is all the services that are missed on top (…) We need good alternatives that are very convenient that have the privacy of the European Union built in. And this is lacking at the moment.
I have one minor note. In terms of economics, the General Data Protection Regulation can be seen as a form of government support. But, it is not enough for companies who can’t afford to build on top of bare metal.