They were also extremely slow to adopt EU legislation required, and still haven’t for all services.
Microsoft by contrast did so immediately, with Amazon doing so as well shortly after.
Still, when I ask our DPO which cloud is better, he’ll point to Azure, then AWS and directly advice against using Google.
Which is a shame, because I’d actually like to use firebase and flutter to up our production effectiveness on mobile. As one example.
It’s also why we solely rely on OpenStreetMap instead of using google maps, even though supporting OSM with server infrastructure to do so is more expensive. At least these days, OSM is a great map service, but we also used it when it wasn’t.
Yes. Every municipality around here goes with Microsoft or their own on premises installations for this very reason.
Corporations are like people - they don't change. You can put on different mask every day, but underneath its the same flesh and bones (or decision makers in this case). I would be wary of the notion that Microsoft is somehow a good moral company in one specific area, when it is amoral in others.
Though, morality is part of corporate culture, and I think different cultures can have different levels of toxicity. Cough Oracle cough. If the corporation is too affected, it may be foolish to even waste time evaluating their, on paper, decent and secure offer. If you have reason to believe they will find a way to throw you under the bus anyway later on.
Yes, Satya Nadella is the CEO of the company, but Azure and Windows are in completely separate organizations, with completely separate senior leadership. The goals of the two organizations are also vastly different, with one is focused on consumer products (Windows) while the other is focused on developer and enterpirse services (Azure). Because of this, the decisions made by one SLT is not at all indicative of another SLT's decisions.
Disclaimer: MSFT Employee working in Azure.
What does Microsoft do that other cloud providers like Google do not do? If I store my data in GCP region europe-west3 (Frankfurt) are you saying that Google will leak that data to some third party or send it out of that region?
Maybe the NSA still listens in, maybe China does too, but it’s not legal for them to do so the way it would be in the Alibaba or google clouds.
What is the legal difference between the NSA intercepting European GCP traffic and European Azure traffic?