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Countries are growing uneasy about their dependence on U.S. technology firms.

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[–] kaljakoripallomaha@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

That’s the thing, we’re all so tightly involved in those few platforms it’s near impossible to correct the situation in the short term.

In our company we’re also documenting the risks related to US services and it’s pretty bleak. And even if we magically untangled ourselves from all that, we’d still be screwed when all the suppliers, the local infrastructure and literally everything is still on top of those. Honestly I’m not even sure if we’d get through the doors or have electricity in the whole cities we operate in if all went out at once.

The best we can do in short term is to not make it worse and choose wiser with new projects, migrate everything that can be done cheaply and hope for the best until we can get everything lifted off US governed services. Even with the risk recognised, it still doesn’t warrant that magnitude of investment. So we at least plan and document everything as well as we can.