The recent announcement of "a new, independent cloud for Europe" by Amazon Web Services has underlined the growing divergence between the positions of Paris and Berlin regarding digital sovereignty in the cloud sector.

"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.

  • connaisseur@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Sigmatics@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      But why couldn’t a large European company over hyperscalers? It’s not rocket science