{"id":514291,"date":"2025-10-20T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514291\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:52:12","slug":"aws-outage-fuels-call-for-europe-to-limit-reliance-on-us-tech-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514291\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS outage fuels call for Europe to limit reliance on US tech \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday\u2019s outage shows how concentrated power makes the internet fragile and this lack of resilience hits our economies as a result,\u201d technologist Robin Berjon said in an email. Berjon co-founded the Eurostack project \u2014 an initiative campaigning to make Europe self-reliant in digital services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope\u2019s dependency on monopoly cloud companies like Amazon is a security vulnerability and an economic threat we can\u2019t ignore,\u201d Cori Crider, executive director of the Future of Technology Institute, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>According to AWS&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health dashboard<\/a>, which shows a &#8220;running log of AWS service interruptions for the past 12 months,&#8221; the outage originated with servers in North America and specifically Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted reaction including from Ulrike Franke, senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations: \u201cMy robot vacuum cleaner no longer works and can someone explain why a robot in Paris is linked to U.S. East? Talk about European digital sovereignty\u2026\u201d she posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/rikefranke.bsky.social\/post\/3m3mir52kh22u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese disruptions are not just technical issues, they\u2019re democratic failures,\u201d said Corinne Cath-Speth, head of digital at civil society group Article 19. \u201cWhen a single provider goes dark, critical services go offline with it \u2014 media outlets become inaccessible, secure communication apps like Signal stop functioning, and the infrastructure that serves our digital society crumbles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urgently need diversification in cloud computing,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cToday\u2019s outage shows how concentrated power makes the internet fragile and this lack of resilience hits our economies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[14035,7694,6511,2000,299,5187,6084,11581,11584,8720,811,7497,91181,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-514291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-cloud","9":"tag-critical-infrastructure","10":"tag-data-protection","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-infrastructure","15":"tag-internet-of-things","16":"tag-network-security","17":"tag-resilience","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-strategic-autonomy","20":"tag-supply-chain-security","21":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115406357351227193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}