The Dutch Central Bank has dropped Amazon Web Services in favour of STACKIT, a cloud platform owned by the retail giant behind Lidl and Kaufland. The move is the latest sign of European institutions distancing themselves from US providers bound by American surveillance law. But is the supermarket group really the cloud champion Europe has been waiting for?
“You can either conflict or violate EU law and comply with the US, or you violate US law and comply with the EU — but you cannot be right twice,” said Kristina Irion, Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam.
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