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Turns out that one of the four EU cloud winners S3NS is a joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud.The European cloud industry association calls it "sovereignty washing at the highest levels."A framework built to keep US hyperscalers out awarded a contract to an entity running on Google Cloud tech. SEAL-2, not SEAL-3. The lowest passing grade.The framework works. The political will to enforce it fully doesn't.https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/europe_picks_4_sovereign_cloud/#DataSovereignty #SovereignCloud #EU #Privacy #CLOUDACT

@ReggieHere I would be surprised if it was an either/or situation. Seems very likely to have been elements of both.Microsoft in particular has for a very long time been seen as a default, "of course they're trustworthy" level contractor. In a non-trivial number of cases that's probably still so. Very few will truly question a choice of the default, "everyone uses them" provider. Suggest something else, though, and suddenly you're taking on a lot of responsibility.@djbj82