[a_humean]

If your business has everything on GCP/AWS/Azure (which is very common) and the Americans choose to weaponinse US tech against your country or business, then unless you have non-US backups you are probably dead and all of your employees unemployed. If you are a state, all of your services and functions are probably dead and you have to rebuild from nothing. That is certainly true of my company and there are some mutterings starting where I am internally about worst case disaster recovery if suddenly one of these suppliers just disapeared.

In this new world you cannot trust that this will not happen. As a European relying on the Americans is honestly probably little better than relying on the Russians and probably on par with relying on the Chinese in terms of risk profile. Note we are actually for all intents and purposes at war with Russia.

The amount of leverage the Americans have over Europe is insane, and every captial should be trying to mitgate that risk asap.

[formerly_proven]

European companies largely do not recognize this as a risk because they consider B2B contracts with Microsoft or AWS essentially iron-clad.

[zwaps]

This is because Europeans can not listen.

Microsoft executives under oath said that they will not be able to honor those contracts if there is pressure from the US administration. We should know this, but we keep forgetting: laws, contracts, courts etc always bow before political and military might. In peacetime, we delude ourselves into thinking it aint so.

The situation is now clear as day. What op stated is 100 percent correct.

The US will have successfully invaded an EU country by 2027.

They will, if it comes to this, immediately and successfully weaponize all three hyperscalers.

It is abundantly clear where thinks are going.

If any country, organization or company is not prepared for this by mid 2026, they are blind and deaf

[Tepix]

This used to be true but it's rapidly changing.

[general1465]

> If your business has everything on GCP/AWS/Azure (which is very common) and the Americans choose to weaponinse US tech against your country or business,

these companies have datacenters in Europe too. It is not wild to think that if push comes to shove and US cut off Europe, then Europeans can just take control over those European data centers and restore access to GCP/AWS/Azure in Europe because these datacenters are on their soil and predominantly employing Europeans.

[Roark66]

>. It is not wild to think that if push comes to shove and US cut off Europe, then Europeans can just take control over those European data centers and restore access to GCP/AWS/Azure in Europe because these datacenters are on their soil and predominantly employing Europeans.

Good luck with that. Those systems are extremely interconnected. We should (and are) be building sovereign EU equivalents to not just cloud providers but also major services like google/ms 365 and so on.