AWS Summit Milan 2026 was suprising in some ways.
1. A great use of the word #sovereign. Really? From an hyperscaler subject to US Cloud Act?
2. 100% of speeches and live captions in Italian. Never seen before, even from much smaller, local players.

An occasion to meet people you already know. Just from your country. What a waste for such a great event.

#oped #mustread Contemporary #fascism has evolved into a #globalized system of authoritarian domination led by the #US and its #allies, combining #military #aggression, economic coercion, #media #manipulation, and institutional capture against #resistance movements and #sovereign #states across the Global South -

#geopolitics #politics #internet
#economy #warcrimes #genocide
#law #ihl #lawlessness4USprofit
#civilsociety

By Pedro Monzón Barata for Al Mayadeen

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/stopping-contemporary-fascism--what-is-to-be-done

How DORA Made Sovereignty a Bank Problem
https://philippdubach.com/posts/dora-critical-cloud-providers-sovereignty/

DORA named 19 Critical ICT Providers on 18 November 2025 including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, IBM, and Bloomberg; each now faces direct EU oversight with fines up to 1% of daily global turnover per day for six months.
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The funding asymmetry runs two orders of magnitude (roughly €1.4B of EU sovereignty policy against €20B+ of hyperscaler EU sovereign-cloud capex),

#cloud #sovereign #regulation #investment

#OpenCommit is a #sovereign #EU platform dedicated to providing a free alternative to #GitHub and #Gitlab for Open Source projects.

Just like our friends at #Codeberg, we strongly believe in open source, #transparency and #independence

For years, open source has concentrated on one #US platform.

Let's stop doing that... move to https://opencommit.eu

While you can already run your own, we're working on providing shared actions runners and package storage.

#OneIsNone #opencommit #opensource

AWS is poisonous for the European Union.

#sovereign #europe #cloud