> There are discussions and worries but the conclusion is always the same: it's too expensive to move away or not moving to the cloud and there is no non-US alt

> There are discussions and worries but the conclusion is always the same: it's too expensive to move away or not moving to the cloud and there is no non-US alternative. That's due to a combination of multiple factors: - owning hardware is capex and means assets that depreciate on the balance sheet, which is bad for finance bros. Outsourcing that means opex and no responsibility for assets. - there are European cloud service providers but they lack the comprehensiveness of AWS/GCE/Azure and in many cases integration into Terraform or other IaC solutions, on top of that they are more expensive than American counterparts - in the office suite space, there is no "one stop shop" solution like Office 365 offers - it's in the best case a collection of different open source tools that don't have even close to the level of integration that Microsoft offers, there is barely any commercial vendor offering support for all of them (so you have to coordinate with a bunch of vendors). - On top of that, it's very difficult for open-source solutions to check the "auditability" / "recordkeeping" checkboxes that companies with an exposure to the US stonk market demand, whereas Microsoft does all of that as an integrated and "standard practice"-conformant service