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hyperscaler giants
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Discussions on WindowsForum.com examine the role of hyperscaler giants—Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services—in global cloud infrastructure, particularly regarding Europe's sovereign cloud ambitions. The content highlights how these American hyperscaler giants have become essential to cloud services, making genuine European data sovereignty difficult to achieve. European cloud solutions are often hybrids that rely on technology from these hyperscaler giants, creating dependencies that challenge claims of full autonomy. The tag covers the tension between policy goals for data independence and the practical dominance of these major cloud providers.
For decades, Europe’s ambitions of possessing truly “sovereign cloud” solutions—platforms supposedly placed beyond the reach of foreign powers—have collided with a technological and economic reality: America’s hyperscaler giants, especially Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services, have become...
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