75% of European businesses fear a US tech Kill Switch as much as a ransomware attack — switching off US cloud and services could deal an economic death blow, with sovereign alternatives desperately needed
www.techradar.com
European businesses are seeking alternatives to US hyperscalers, but Europe has a long way to go before it can survive entirely on its own.
    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      There are several companies that bankrupt or suffered big loss after a planned ERP replacement, I really think it would be more than just a rough month. They are not prepared, and aren’t preparing

      • brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        6 days ago

        I think that says more about those companies management than anything else.

        In some countries we’ve seen the most inefficient parts of our economy (public sector) able to do such a change. We’ve also seen the entire continent’s change its energy supply in a year.

        I have zero doubts in a dynamic private company’s ability to do such a transition relatively unharmed. In fact they do this regularly, going from aws to azure, from azure to gcp, and so on. It just depends on who’s buttering up the CTO at the moment…

    • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      A rough month? I don’t believe most companies can recover that fast when Microsoft switches off outlook, teams and sharepoint.

      • then_three_more@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 days ago

        It does deeper than that. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure being cut would be a killer. I really doubt StackIT could scale quickly enough to fill a gap created by either of those

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Let me assure you that it would be much more than “a rough month”. You have no idea how many factories run on US tech. Most would grind to a halt, with no chance of restarting in any reasonable amount of time.