The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
Buying service level agreements on rented hardware is easier and cheaper (you don’t have to pay your own IT). Security and data protection, pfft nobody needs or wants that.
Now you’re paying for devops…
Not necessarily. Standard services like chat and mail and office usually come in standard packages. You do need an admin for standard services too but one admin can easily take care of dozens of users across dozens of services. The devops team is something you only need if you’re running custom cloud applications which I would imagine a lot of companies don’t do at all.
“Yes, but that’s another departments cost. Or some lobbyists told me this is cheaper. Anyway, we’re locked into the whole thing by now, doesn’t matter anymore.”