What did you think the point of the “cloud” was?
It wasn’t to make computing better.
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Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No they can’t, they never could, and it’s way way overdue for EU to finally wake up to the reality that all US owned cloud services are factually illegal for any European authority to use, from kindergartens to courts and everything in between.
It is also illegal for any private company to hold any user/customer/personnel data on servers owned by American companies.
I’ve been saying this for more than 8 years now! Because this became apparent already under Obama, that the US government can demand, any data in any country held by any American company, to be handed over. Furthermore they can do this in secret under anti terror laws. And the companies affected are not allowed to mention anything to anybody, under regulation of steep penalties.
This was what Obama claimed was a balanced approach!!!
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think the point is to make money.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It was control. I guess money comes along with that.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
No I’m pretty sure money was the original reason. AWS was the first big cloud player and it quickly became the most profitable part of Amazon.
Now Microsoft already had more money than they know how to use, they may indeed have been looking for control first and foremost. But the idea of cloud in general was about exploiting economies of scale to make more money
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 days ago
That’s the story of humanity. It’s always alarmist BS until some higher up gets personally burned and it’s suddenly red alert.