Dave Cottlehuber, the founder of Skunkwers, a small technology infrastructure company in Austria, said he had moved a few servers and databases of the company away from US suppliers to European services since the beginning of the year. First and most importantly, about the values for me, privacy is not a privilege. Cottlehuber said the decision to move more easily for a small business like him, but he argued that it removed some taxes paid to the Trump administration. The best thing I can do is to eliminate my small contribution, and at the same time, make sure my privacy is respected and preserved, according to Mr. Cottlehuber.
Steffen Schmidt, CEO of Medicusdata, a company providing services to doctors and hospitals in Europe, saying that having data in Europe is always mandatory, but his customers have requested more in recent weeks. Since the beginning of 2025, in addition to ensuring data residence, customers have actively asked us to use cloud providers as natural European companies.
Harry Staight, AWS spokesman, said it was not accurate, customers were moving from AWS to EU alternative options. Our customers have control over their data and how to encrypt and we make AWS Cloud sovereignty, according to Straight. AWS services that support encryption with key -managed courses cannot access AWS, which means that customers have the right to control AI access to their data. STAIGHT says that members of PCLOB, does not affect the agreements around the sharing of EU-US data and the cloud law takes additional protective measures for the cloud content. Google and Microsoft declined to comment.
The change of potential from US technology companies is not only linked to cloud providers. Since January 15, visitors come European alternative solution website Increase more than 1,200 percent. The website lists everything, from music streaming services to DDOS, Marko Saric protection tools, co -founder of European cloud analysis services. We can definitely feel that something is happening is an inexplicable organic growth in any season or our activities, he said.
Although there are signs of motion, the impact may be at least now. Around the world, governments and businesses use many cloud services, such as authentication, storage, data storage and data centers that are increasingly providing AI processing from technology service providers and three large clouds. Cottlehuber said that, for large businesses, it may take months, if no more, to consider what needs to be moved, related risks, plus the systems really change. What happens if you have hundreds of Petabytes stored, it will take many years to switch to the Internet, he said.
For many years, European companies have struggled to compete with Google, Microsoft and Amazon services and technical infrastructure services, which produce billions each year. It is also difficult to find similar services on the scale of services provided by European cloud companies instead.
If you are going into the Hyperscaler cloud ecosystem, you will struggle to find equivalent services elsewhere, he said, Mr. Bert Hubert, a businessman and former government management agency, who said he had heard of many new cloud migration for US companies being kept or reconsidered. Hubert argued that it was no longer safe ”for The European government was transferred to the American clouds and European alternative options Can not compete correctly. We sell a lot of good wood in Europe. But not many furniture, he said. However, that can also change.
Schaake, a former member of the European Parliament, said the combination of new investments, another approach to buying public services and the first European approach or invested in European technology stack Can help stimulate any wider move on the continent. The strong change of the Trump administration is very tangible, Mr. Scha Schaake said. The idea that anything that could happen and Europe should protect itself is clear. Now we need to see the same type of speed and leadership that we see with the defense to really turn this into meaningful action.