Alibaba Cloud plans expansion into Europe and South America

Alibaba Cloud yesterday announced its first datacenters in Brazil, France, and The Netherlands, plus expansion of its presence in five other countries outside China. The cloudy offshoot of giant e-tailer Alibaba already operates 91 availability zones in 29 regions, 14 of which are in China – a market in which it enjoys …

[harrys]

Hopefully will be blocked

The only people allowing this will be

1. Naive fools - sadly more of these on the left these days

2. Peoples who will make a shed load of cash here, aka suppliers and/or brown envelope lovers - equally prevalent on the left and the right :)

[sal II]

Re: Hopefully will be blocked

Why not let the free market handle it, rather than blocking it on national level? It's not like the US cloud vendors don't carry risk under the current regime in the US.

You should be encrypting any cloud data anyway, so the risk that remains is availability in case of a Government mandate. Which at this point is probably less of an issue with China, than US based companies.

[sal II]

No surprise

"The move to France and The Netherlands is harder to explain, as both nations have expressed concern that Chinese tech vendors present risks to local users."

Trump's USA has proven to be just as risky as China for running workloads in Cloud. If they can provide better pricing I can see people and companies using it.