> The western economy is almost completely built using off-prem in Cloud PaaS environments US and lesser extent UK. Companies in France, Germany, Spain, Italy

> The western economy is almost completely built using off-prem in Cloud PaaS environments US and lesser extent UK. Companies in France, Germany, Spain, Italy are much less likely to use public cloud providers, especially for critical (customer data, critical for the business, etc.) services. Not that it doesn't exist, one of the premier health tech startups in Europe, Doctolib, is full AWS; but it's rarer and much less prevalent. Source: I work in a US tech company and cover EMEA, and compare notes with American colleagues.