"What worries me the most is that the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has endorsed the AWS European Sovereign Cloud,” French centrist MP Philippe Latombe says, explaining he fears that “the Germans start exerting pressure” against France’s highest cloud security certification, called SecNumCloud.
For Latombe, “[Amazon’s] AWS cloud cannot be sovereign because it is subject to the US FISA and Cloud Act,” legislations mandating US companies, US citizens or foreign subsidiaries on US soil to cooperate with the US security agencies.
AWS European Sovereign Cloud
That’s an oxymoron
Fuck Amazon and any government working with them. The people are not a commodity. Protecting us against big corporations who make billions with our data is the least we can expect from our elected officials.
This is about AWS complying with foreign (US) security agencies, not Amazon (the webshop) harvesting individuals’ data. Not that your point is not valid.
My bad. I guess AWS can do both, ie harvesting and selling data, giving it up every time a US agency asks for it
In this context, Latombe fears that Germans are taking a pro-US and anti-French position and, therefore, would be “exchanging their industrial dependency on Russian gas for a dependency on American digital companies”.
So France is not using Microsoft Windows in any of their authorities? No Android or iOS phones either? Fact is that the GaiaX project is still a joke and too little too late. If you want to have cloud now and not in 10 years then apart from smaller companies there are only US based hyperscalers.
But there are a lot of open source solutions that can be implemented in this case. No need to go to some enterprise cloud provider, they can just use local data centres and deploy an open source solution.
But why couldn’t a large European company over hyperscalers? It’s not rocket science
