Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

Dave Kotierber, the founder of SkungWerks, a small technology infrastructure company in Austria, says he transports the company’s servers and a few databases from American service providers to European services since the beginning of the year. “First of all, it comes to values,” says Kothamop. “For me, privacy is a right not a privilege.” Cottlehuber says the decision to move is easier for a small company like him, but he argues that he removes some of the taxes that are paid to the Trump administration. “The best thing I can do is remove this small contribution, and also at the same time, be sure to respect and preserve the privacy of my customer,” says Cottlehuber.

Steffen Schmidt, CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text services to the words of doctors and hospitals in Europe, says that there were data in Europe, “It was always necessary,” but his customers have been asking for more in recent weeks. “Since the beginning of 2025, in addition to the guarantees of data setting up, customers have asked for the activity of the use of cloud services providers who are already European companies,” Cummid said, adding that some of his services have been transferred to Nubors in Nubor.

AWS spokesman Harry Steaite says that it is “not accurate” for customers to move from AWS alternatives to the European Union alternatives. “Our customers control the place where they store their data and how to encrypt them, and we make Aws Cloud Soovereign-Dy-Desigen,” says straightened. “AWS services supports encryption with the keys to managed to AWS, which means that customers have full control over those who reach their data.” Staight says PCLOb “does not affect the agreements on the participation of European Union and the United States and that the cloud has” additional guarantees of cloud content. ” Google and Microsoft rejected the comment.

A possible transformation away from American technology companies is not only related to cloud services providers. Since January 15, visitors to the European alternative site have increased more than 1,200 percent. Marco Sarik, one of the founders of European cloud analysis service, says the site tells everything from music broadcasting services to DDOS protection tools. “We can definitely feel that something is happening,” said Sarik. “This is an organic growth that cannot be explained in any season or our activities,” he says.

While there are signs of movement, the effect is likely to be small – at least at the present time. Throughout the world, governments and companies use multiple cloud services – such as authentication, hosting, data storage, and increasing data centers that provide artificial intelligence processing – from the three adult cloud service providers. Cottlehuber says that for large companies, it may take several months, if not more, to consider what must be transferred, the risks involved, in addition to already change the systems. “What happens if you have a hundred abdomen of storage, it will take years to move online,” he says.

For years, European companies have struggled to compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon from the cloud and technical infrastructure, which makes billions every year. It may also be difficult to find similar services on the scale of those provided by alternative European cloud companies.

“If you are deep in the super -sougious cloudy ecosystem, you will struggle to find equivalent services elsewhere,” says Bert Hobert, a former businessman and government organizer, who says he heard about the migrations of a new cloud to American companies that have been reviewed or reconsidered. Hubert has argued that he was no longer “safe” for European governments to be transferred to American clouds and that European alternatives cannot compete properly. “We sell a lot of beautiful wood here in Europe. But this furniture is not much,” he says. However, this can also change.

Schake, a former European member, says a mixture of new investments, a different approach to buying public services, a approach in Europe or investing in a European technology pile that can help stimulate any broader moves on the continent. “The dramatic transformation of the Trump administration is very concrete,” says Sheaki. “The idea that anything can happen and that Europe must call for itself clear. Now we need to see the same type of pace and leadership that we see with the defense to actually turn this into a meaningful work.”