> An EU sovereign cloud by Amazon though would be built in the EU and staffed by EU employees though. At that point, why is Amazon needed? Don't we really have

> An EU sovereign cloud by Amazon though would be built in the EU and staffed by EU employees though. At that point, why is Amazon needed? Don't we really have the expertise and capital to do this in Europe without Amazon (or Google, MSFT)? I somehow doubt that very much.