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European Cloud Providers (CISPE): No Such Thing as “75% Sovereign” (www.cispe.cloud)

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A cloud service is either sovereign or it’s not – just as food is either organic or it’s not. You can’t be 75% organic, and you shouldn’t be 75% sovereign either. Yet that’s exactly the confusion created by the European Commission’s new EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. [...]

In practice, most European cloud service providers are likely to score lower than foreign hyperscalers under this system – perhaps that’s the idea – preserving the status quo under a cloak of “sovereignty.” The message seems to be: can’t comply with European ownership and control requirements? Never mind – make up the numbers through investment or participation in EU schemes.

CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe) is the trade association and lobbying group for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISPE

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[–] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Some reporting I read on it referred to

A Microsoft executive admitted under oath in a French Senate inquiry in July that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty to European customers due to the CLOUD Act. The US legislation allows authorities stateside to demand access to any data held by American companies anywhere in the world.

Which I'd hope is a big damn minus in any sovereignty considerations.