Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

“The European Commission is moving from advisory language to mandatory deadlines for migrating critical infrastructure off US-controlled cloud providers.”

For five years Brussels said companies should consider European alternatives. Nobody did. Now the language is shifting from should to must and the deadlines are starting to land in writing. AWS, Azure, and GCP collectively run most of the European public sector and a meaningful chunk of its private sector. Untangling that is a decade of work. The decade has started.