OMG just do, EU needs some balls. Upcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner, OVH are all production ready . EU business leaders are so afraid of not using the biggest provider they are blind to how you IT can absolutely run 100% on compute from these providers and opensource

I mean, it would be a huge sign of incompetence if the US agencies did not use the American IT companies to spy on their foes ... and friends.

Remember that Amazon used AWS to spy on other companies when they were trying to enter new markets. How f-g naive are you to think your information is safe just because you signed a contract?

Why not focus on having something actually competetive with AWS / gcp / azure? And not, hetzner and OVH are not it.

Should have been done years ago

The fact EU is not using homegrown providers is probably the greatest evidence of corruption. It's bizarre politicians could do this damage for so long - to national security, to domestic capability, economy and so on. Some anti-corruption bodies in Europe shamelessly take their salaries and do nothing.

"EU weighs" = ten more years of committees

Our governments are at this weird intersection of incompetence, lobby influence and cowardice. This gets multiplied in the EU offices and various bodies.

I am not even sure what could be done to change this. We have democratic elections, people managing the country are at least formally qualified but they sit in the central Venn diagram intersection above.

One of the reasons for the technical dependence is that huge gap between the ones who understand how to architecture the country or EU information systems, and the ones who make the decision.