The European Commission is considering proposing rules that would restrict the use of U.S. cloud platforms to process sensitive government data across EU countries, officials told CNBC.
The Commission — the EU’s executive branch — is expected to present its “Tech Sovereignty Package” on May 27.
There have been increasing calls within Europe for the region’s most critical workloads to move away from U.S. cloud providers, which currently dominate the European market.
Is there at least one real cloud provider in EU? I mean real cloud provider with good number of managed services like managed DB, messaging, k8s, serverless workloads, object storage, IAM, monitoring, secrets vault, multi-zone/regional deployments, API Gateway and so on? Like real cloud not just hosting with VMs and few templates for deploying open source software. This is what Europe needs, like decade ago