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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by progbits on Sunday August 25, 2024 @02:59PM (#41350166)
Google is doing this. German and French companies are building a datacenter to GCP standards, will license the code and run essentially whitelabel GCP under full jurisdiction of the EU company. Google can only push updates with their approval and has no visibility into the operations.

https://cloud.google.com/t-systems-sovereign-cloud?hl=en

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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by vasco on Sunday August 25, 2024 @07:21PM (#41352417)
Isn't this how all the hyperscalers already run in China?
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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by alephnerd on Monday August 26, 2024 @05:36AM (#41355446)
Yes. Though they increasingly own management as well.

At this point Azure in China and AWS in China is a reskin around Tencent Cloud.

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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by trevyn on Sunday August 25, 2024 @11:53PM (#41353868)
This is actually quite funny. A sovereign cloud that they have no f-ing clue how to maintain without the mothership.
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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by progbits on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:16AM (#41356407)
They get documentation and playbooks (which are pretty good), source code access, and of course direct channel to the "mothership" engineers for support.

I'm sure early days will be painful but there is no reason for this not to work.

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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by trevyn on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:48AM (#41365113)
Sure, as long as the mothership exists and is cooperative, it’s fine. But that’s not actually very sovereign, is it?
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