@craiglambie42 the cost aspect was / is the reason why organisations moved to the big techs cloud. Most people do it for convenience in the private sector.
Own your data is about responsibility. And this comes with a price tag. Companies reduced/removed their IT departments, because the “cloud can do this without the expensive experts” - IT is anyway only a cost factor 🤯 I heard quite often.
Now a new narrative is told: AI is the savior …

@evischreck it is true. But the cost factor is now apparent... Big tech tax, as they sell our souls to the trackers.

@craiglambie42 risk management apparently seems to be not most IT departments strength. Outherwhise they would ave thought more than twice to get into such deep dependencies

@evischreck indeed. Data sovereignty is so important... Now especially. But who knew a fascist would suddenly take over the US government...

@craiglambie42 I always tried to be independent. Maybe the way I grew up shaped this quite a lot. Power can always be abused - and strong dependencies make it really worse.
I’m not as “perfect” or good, as I want to be, but the times actually demonstrate, that it’s time to let go convenience and strengthen independence.
Good to know, that I’m not alone 🤙🏻