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One main obstacle for their cloud business in general and specifically Azure is that the latest GDPR rulings in Europe basically says that it is illegal for Eur
by jbergens 5y ago
One main obstacle for their cloud business in general and specifically Azure is that the latest GDPR rulings in Europe basically says that it is illegal for European companies to use Azure (or AWS or GCP) if you store any personal information. This may be a hindrance for both MS and Amazon for the next 1-2 years.
Search for "schrems ii ruling" to read more about this.
- PretzelPirate 5y agoThis seems rather easy to solve if they approach it like they approach China. In China, US companies don’t run their own datacenters, they’re run by a Chinese company. If there’s a problem in that datacenter, the US on calls can tell the Chinese employee how to fix it, but the US person never gets access to the environment.