> The only solution seems to be to ensure that they are two different companies. The other option is to abandon the EU market. > What still surprises me is tha

> The only solution seems to be to ensure that they are two different companies. The other option is to abandon the EU market. > What still surprises me is that nearly all of the major cloud companies are based in the US. Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Apple, all of them US companies. If ever a law is going to create some EU competitors, it's the Cloud Act. Given that e.g. AWS alone "owns"/operates two regions in China and several GovCloud regions, at worst it'll have a slight impact on these cloud provider's business via mainly legal and not technical changes. What it will do is show the Privacy Shield agreement is a farce, and the US cannot be trusted in these matters - well, hardly new insights, with things like ICANN et al, but these things were largely left unsaid. I suspect US foreign politics and their image will be harmed more than any of these cloud companies.