Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by agubelu on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:25AM (#46838017)

That would be as close to a declaration of war as you can get without firing a bullet.

The immediate and obvious response would be for the foreign branches of those companies to be declared "of national interest", nationalized and forced to keep operating.

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Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by FpUser on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:25PM (#46838633)

>"nationalized and forced to keep operating."

Assuming there is no some kill switch which would render a whole infra including hardware inoperable.

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Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by gopher_space on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:11PM (#46840896)

I'd imagine the government would be in talks with the highest ranking local Amazon employees long before, but I can't imagine a country trusting the hardware or wanting to manage the jank.

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Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by hdgvhicv on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:01PM (#46840806)

We saw the damage crowdstrike caused in a few hours

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Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by martijnvds on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:29PM (#46838665)

It's called us-east-1?

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Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native by solatic on Saturday January 31, 2026 @02:44PM (#46840055)

AWS China is a completely separate partition under separate Chinese management, with no dependencies on us-east-1. It also greatly lags in feature deployments as a result.

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