Just like their American counterparts, more than half of European businesses with over 1,000 employees now use a public cloud platform. But European governments aren’t so sure that they should trust their data on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, or the IBM Cloud. They worry that the US CLOUD act enables US law enforcement to unilaterally demand access to EU citizens’ cloud data — even when it’s stored outside the States. So, they’re turning to private European-based clouds, such as those running on Nextcloud, a popular open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud.
"European governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more seriously, moving away from cloud solutions from large, centralized, foreign firms," said Jos Poortvliet, Nextcloud’s head of marketing. Specifically, they’re doing this because of President Donald Trump’s threats over France’s digital services tax and continuing legal privacy conflicts between the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the CLOUD Act.
So far the French Ministry of Interior, the Dutch Ministry of Education, the German federal government, and the Swedish federal government agencies are deploying Nextcloud-based private clouds.
Attached is a screenshot of some of the apps that I can easily enable or disable as services on my Nextcloud hosting. They are releasing more and more functionality and the latest was OpenStreetMaps where your places and tracks can be saved privately in your own Nextcloud hosting.
See https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-turns-from-american-public-clouds-to-nextcloud-private-clouds/
#^EU turns from American public clouds to Nextcloud private clouds | ZDNet
European governments, wary of American public clouds, are turning toward Nextcloud private clouds for Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds.