> I don't even know how you start a conversation like "aws works fine for us, but let's switch for political reasons"
Some companies may see it as "let's switch for continuity-of-business reasons", not political reasons as such. Things may get worse over the next few years. Amazon is not spending billions on https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/europe-digital-sovereignty... for _fun_; even before ol' minihands's return, some highly risk-conscious companies, particularly those in sensitive fields, would not use AWS out of caution (the US-EU data protection treaties keep collapsing, for instance see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU–US_Privacy_Shield ).
I'd say AWS is less at risk from this than most, actually, in that, as above, they have a plan, though just how watertight it is remains to be seen.
To be clear, I don't mean that there is no good reason to have such a conversation. I'm just really curious how you can't start it ; in the middle of the millions of things that your average company has to do, how do you knock on your bosses's door and tell them:
"hey, you know that "cloud" thing that you have no idea how it works, but our whole business depend on ?
We're using the same as everyone else; but we're not sure we can trust US cloud anymore, so we want to try an unknown company from country-you-can't-place-on-a-map-either.
We'll have to spend several months of engineering and incurr tens of thousands of dollars of extra licenses to try and migrate our infra.
We have no way to be sure it will work.
And it will make no discernable difference to our customers.
We have to start on Monday, so that we can be ready in time for next US presidential blunder.
I mean, sure, it'd be disruptive. That is, unfortunately, the nature of current geopolitics. There are a lot of companies who'll currently be having serious unexpected conversations about tariffs, say (if you have a profit margin of 3% and your main input has just had a 25% tariff slapped on it, then you'll be looking at big changes, more or less immediately, or else going out of business).
If the wheels come off the current arrangements that let European businesses operate on US-owned cloud services, then a lot of companies will be having similar conversations. Those companies who've investigated this _before_ the wheels come off will be in better shape. Some companies have been investigating and/or actively doing this for _years_.
Some companies may see it as "let's switch for continuity-of-business reasons", not political reasons as such. Things may get worse over the next few years. Amazon is not spending billions on https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/europe-digital-sovereignty... for _fun_; even before ol' minihands's return, some highly risk-conscious companies, particularly those in sensitive fields, would not use AWS out of caution (the US-EU data protection treaties keep collapsing, for instance see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU–US_Privacy_Shield ).
I'd say AWS is less at risk from this than most, actually, in that, as above, they have a plan, though just how watertight it is remains to be seen.