Amazon, Microsoft and Google run so much cloud infrastructure that it’s not in the power of ordinary peasants like us to even make a dent in their business. When we use pretty much anything online we’re helping support them. And US corporations have little incentive to leave those services because the end users don’t even know what they use for their backends. Foreign governments and companies are the main organizations that have the power to make an impact on big US tech by taking their cloud business elsewhere.
Amazon, Microsoft and Google run so much cloud infrastructure that it’s not in the power of ordinary peasants like us to even make a dent in their business. When we use pretty much anything online we’re helping support them. And US corporations have little incentive to leave those services because the end users don’t even know what they use for their backends. Foreign governments and companies are the main organizations that have the power to make an impact on big US tech by taking their cloud business elsewhere.