Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview

Microsoft has taken another step to address regulatory worries regarding its cloud ecosystem with a public preview of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty. Teased in 2022, the public preview is aimed at governments and comes ahead of general availability at the end of 2023. Governments and the cloud have long been uneasy …

[Doctor Syntax]

But as Microsoft is a US company they're still subject to the CLOUD Act. An access under that wouldn't be for engineering so there'd be no need to enter it into the engineering log.

[Danie]

Exactly what I was thinking - the US CLOUD Act overrides most things by any US owned company and prohibits informing the customer.

[xyz]

Oh ok, that's all right then...

I don't even know where to begin about how completely fucking stupid this is as an idea.

The whole point of "sovereignty" as any brexiteer will tell you (I'm not a brexiteer) is not to be beholden to anyone and here we have some corp wallah wanting to keep all your data (grab you by the short and curlies) for money (or whatever other leverage said s/he decides on).

Jees, welcome to the new royalty where they have complete control and you pay a fief.

[Anonymous Coward]

National and regional requirements and compliance regulations ;)

National and regional requirements and compliance regulations ;)

[Anonymous Coward]

beware

of Microsoft(s) bearing gifts

...

lalala, we're not listening.