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I'll believe it when I see it. It'll probably take 1-2 decades before the majority of companies have cut the cord. Many people I talked to expected the government to make the first step, not industry which seems completely backwards but oh well.
Why backwards? Seems like governments should respond to the will of the people, whereas companies make decisions in their own interest based on profit. You could say customers vote with their money. Or you could pass laws requiring regulations to drive such a shift. But ultimately that would all take longer than simply passing laws to change how the government spends on IT and services?
Companies are supposed to be the nimble ones, not the government. Most of the time it's companies that drive adoption of something, not governments. Governments are normally the slowest at adopting anything that makes sense.
To now turn it around and say "no, we will wait until the government adopts the tech" is backwards.
Unfortunately that's just propaganda, similar to "private companies keep costs low"
The countries have a lot of personal information about the citizens and I think a majority of the population wishes that the data about them are stored and handled securely and that other countries do not have access to it. And the government itself doesn't want their mails and stored data to be available for foreign interest, which it is if the data is stored at AWS, Google or Microsoft. So I think the governments and the citizens all around Europe should have a lot of interest in changing to European solutions.
Migrations are extremely costly for businesses, they'd likely need a legal or fiscal reason to do so.
Some European government departments have already switched. The government is leading because they want digital sovereignty and they handle both sensitive government information and sensitive people's information. Companies will just go for profit unless required to do something else, and only certain companies will ever need to switch when they handle sensitive data. Your mom and pop flower store doesn't matter. Also they need European cloud companies to get rolling, which means they need customers, and the easiest and best customer is the government, which means it makes sense for the government to lead. You have this all backwards.