Nach einem Ausfall der Amazon Web Services lässt Europa die Debatte über digitale Souveränität wieder aufleben. Der Vorfall verdeutlichte die Abhängigkeit des Kontinents von US-amerikanischen Cloud-Anbietern und rückte die digitale Autonomie wieder in den Fokus
https://sfg.media/en/a/europe-digital-sovereignty-aws-outage/
Von sergeyfomkin
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Too many European eggs in someone else’s basket springs to mind!
as they should
And as per standard European processes, that’s all they gonna do. Revive the debate, debate for a bit, and then do nothing until the next outage. Bring it again when some country is on elections, maybe a candidate pushing hard for it, and then watch it fade into oblivion again.
*surprised Pikachu face*
Good. We need our own tech companies.
SFG media is free to set up the infrastructure and provide web services like Amazon.
Makes sense that this would spark a bigger discussion about digital sovereignty.
We should have this kind of exercise every year! World-wide chaos monkey!
Nothing ever happens, if we don’t want to work like Americans and allow companies to compete with no regulations, we need big, but I mean big public investments in this. But it also means more debt, taxation and some social benefits cut.
Europe is waking up late to the party
The EU should legislate that public institutions and critical infrastructure, including communication, of a certain size (big companies and administrations) have to get a minimum percentage of their digital services from European providers.
Sorry to break the party.
But even if it was EWS (European web services), having half the internet depend on a huge company, that’s a shitty situation
Who is the biggest player in europe ? Does SAP services like these ?
The problem isn’t that it’s American, it’s just that these services are too concentrated to a few companies.
It would’ve the exact same problem if everything was the same but Amazon happened to be a European company
How is this relevant? Would a service outage page having a little EU flag make things less broken somehow? Or is the author really that delusional that a hyperscaler service would suddenly cease to have outages if it was EU-owned?
This is ridiculous that outage of US-East-1 region on AWS is causing whole Europe to black out
Would that means that we ship all our data to USA? What about GDPR? No one cares?
How is this outage related to EU sovereignty?
European providers can also experience outages. The straightforward solution would be to implement a multi-region/multi-cloud strategy.
We’ll have serious discussions about it for two weeks.
European alternatives for digital products [https://european-alternatives.eu/](https://european-alternatives.eu/)
Digital sovereignty doesn’t protect us from outages.
As I’m typing this Reddit is still partially broken. Comments sometimes don’t upload and I have poor access to my profile.
On premise or bust
Debates are very important.