Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis

SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis." Microsoft has signed separate deals with French and German sovereign cloud providers Bleu and Delos Cloud to provide assistance for cross-border cooperation in extensive …

[Doctor Syntax]

"Customers that Microsoft could no longer serve would have the option to migrate workloads"

Is there anything in the MoU that would protect that option being trumped by a fiat from the US? Is there anything which would protect the contents of the customer cloud being copied to some USG server on receipt of a National Security Letter or frm being deleted with no notice?

[Dan 55]

No. Microsoft admitted as much, they'd just like everyone to forget they said that please.

[VoiceOfTruth]

Contradiction

>> Microsoft has signed separate deals with French and German sovereign

It's called letting the American regime in through the front door.

[Zack Mollusc]

Seamless failover

Okay, so when I get an email from microsoft telling me that I am now on the naughty list and have no further access to my data on their cloud, I then access my data on their cloud and copy it to a local friendly cloud? Is that how it works, because I think I see a flaw?

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Seamless failover

You probably don't get an email. You find you don't have data on their cloud. You find you never even had any data on their cloud.

[Roland6]

Re: Seamless failover

“No account with that username can be found”

[Anonymous Coward]

Do those overseas governments include the USA? Can you trust that MS will honor this arrangemnt should the US government tell it not to.

It's a very different conversation when you must start to consider a previous safe state as a significant risk.