Here are the weasel words used to define "pulling the plug" or as the article says "turning off the tap"
> The technology equivalent of turning off the tap would be cloud companies being ordered by the U.S. administration to stop services in Europe. Cloud computing works by giving businesses virtual access to data storage and processing power, massively widening capabilities thanks to their vast networks of physical data centers around the world.
Only Amazon and Microsoft are mentioned, probably because they are assuring European customers that they would fight any order to halt service.
stephenr · 2h ago
So the area of effect for this is about the same as for sites that go offline when AWS US-East goes down...
> The technology equivalent of turning off the tap would be cloud companies being ordered by the U.S. administration to stop services in Europe. Cloud computing works by giving businesses virtual access to data storage and processing power, massively widening capabilities thanks to their vast networks of physical data centers around the world.
Only Amazon and Microsoft are mentioned, probably because they are assuring European customers that they would fight any order to halt service.