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Estonian state trialing IT system free from US tech giants (news.err.ee)
submitted 6 days ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Estonian state is to analyze how viable it would be to reduce dependence on U.S. tech giants such as Microsoft, Google or Amazon for its software.

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[โ€“] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Right cloud migration to sovereignty to me is SaaS --> PaaS/FossApp --> IaaS/FOSSPaaS/FossApp --> HybridCloud(FOSS IaaS onPrem, shared FOSS PaaS in both) --> MultiCloud

[โ€“] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks good to me. But without at least some borderline functional (e.g. Hetzner, StackIt) sovereign domestic cloud vendors you've still got all your eggs in one US-owned basket. Everybody knew that, but nobody cared until the rooster crowed.