The recent announcement of "a new, independent cloud for Europe" by Amazon Web Services has underlined the growing divergence between the positions of Paris and Berlin regarding digital sovereignty in the cloud sector.

"What worries me the most is that the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has endorsed the AWS European Sovereign Cloud,” French centrist MP Philippe Latombe says, explaining he fears that “the Germans start exerting pressure” against France’s highest cloud security certification, called SecNumCloud.

For Latombe, “[Amazon’s] AWS cloud cannot be sovereign because it is subject to the US FISA and Cloud Act,” legislations mandating US companies, US citizens or foreign subsidiaries on US soil to cooperate with the US security agencies.

  • @filisterEnglish
    11•9 months ago

    But there are a lot of open source solutions that can be implemented in this case. No need to go to some enterprise cloud provider, they can just use local data centres and deploy an open source solution.

    • IllecorsEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Yes, but that requires not following the latest fad in the market.