Should Captain America Still Host Your Data?
summary
US law (the US Cloud Act access) can legally compel American clouds to hand over data; cited incidents include the 2022 Amsterdam Trade Bank cutoff and restricted access to ICC emails. Repatriation to Europe alone can fail unless the whole stack avoids US-controlled services. A working alternative exists: object storage + Kubernetes running an open stack using Iceberg Trino Nessie, packaged as the Big Data Republic open data platform (Terraform + Helm) and tested on Scaleway and CISO cloud; rough cost runs show European setups can beat the big three (cluster ≈ €500/month vs $800–1,200).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:29Data platform history
- 8:53Cloud data landscape
- 13:52US cloud risks
- 18:02European data stack
- 24:10Open data project costs
- 32:26Q&A
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