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The whole situation is confusing for me. We set up a few project with kubernetes clusters for local governments in the Netherlands. They denied DigitalOcean bec
by toshk 5y ago
The whole situation is confusing for me. We set up a few project with kubernetes clusters for local governments in the Netherlands. They denied DigitalOcean because even though they have servers in Amsterdam, the company is in the US, so we went with a much higher priced custom K8s cluster from a local provider.
So not really sure if they were right, but according to them even just having your servers run by a US company is a potential legal risk with GDPR.
But at the same time other departments in the same organization run on Azure.
- Gasp0de 5y agoAny US based company can be forced to give up the data of European customers and be silent about it (see CLOUD act) so as far as I see it any US based company that adheres to the CLOUD act can not be GDPR compliant.
- toshk 5y agoYeah that's there arguing as well. Although local govs for some reason have no problem working with Azure. EU cloud hosting companies however are not as mature as the big US players so makes it more of a pain.