Amazon Outage Highlights EU’s ‘Overwhelming Reliance on Big Tech'

Amazon outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech'

Amazon's AWS, Microsoft, and Google control around 70 per cent of Europe’s cloud market.

Amazon cloud outage prompts new questions on EU reliance on US tech

Amazon Web Services went down globally on Monday, affecting services used in Europe. Tech experts used the outage to push for stronger European digital sovereignty.

Amazon cloud outage fuels call for Europe to limit reliance on US tech

Monday’s disruption comes as EU leaders prepare to address digital sovereignty at a gathering this week.

Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’

If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is a collective shrug in the corridors of power. Read the article HERE. The post Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’ appeared first on Brave New Europe.