European alternatives

An expert has seen a huge change in just a few months: Concerns about Finnish data have exploded, thanks to Musk and Trump. Trust in the US is eroding: Companies are looking for European alternatives to Amazon, Microsoft and Google

President Donald Trump’s administration in the United States has shown in a short time that it is not very careful about protecting even the sensitive data of its own citizens and even their own military secrets.

More than 80% of Europe’s digital technologies and infrastructures are imported, and 70% of the foundational AI models used globally originate in the United States. Meanwhile, European companies account for just 7% of global research spending on software and the internet. These figures alone highlight Europe’s heavy reliance on other economic powers in the digital sector.

We have long assumed in Finland and Europe that the physical location of the data is essential. Now there has been a lot of discussion about which country’s legislation the entity that stores the data is subject to. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple are large American cloud service providers. EU laws of course oblige them somewhat but US laws even more. The new Doge agency has sought broad access to, for example, Americans’ social security data. At the same time, experts know that critical health data of Finns is also stored on American servers.

European companies are looking for replacements for cloud services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, among others, as trust in the US administration has eroded. The search for European alternatives for popular services from USA has started. Millions are visiting the European Alternatives siteMillions are visiting the European Alternatives site for most popular top 5 categories:
- Email providers
- Search Engines
- Cloud Computing Platforms
- Navigation Apps
- Web Analytics Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, which dominate the cloud services market, may lose their market share as European companies increasingly turn their attention to cloud services within the eurozone.

https://european-alternatives.eu/ is a site is created to help to find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. The european-alternatives.edu site has no ratings, but the different categories and what is in them are discussed widely

There are six Euro alternative search engines listed:
Qwant (French, uses Bing search index + their own; separate search engine for kids)
Ecosia (Germany, uses Bing or Google, depending on your preferences, has advertising but donates 80% of surplus revenue to conservation projects)
Startpage (Netherlands, uses Google & Bing results, but with focus on privacy)
Good (non-profit search engine from Germany, uses Brave search index)
Swisscows (Swiss search engine uses Bing index + self-made one)
metaGer (German metasearch combining search results from other providers)

Boycott USA: List of products to boycott, and alternative products is another site that lists European alternatives for digital products. It will help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like email providers, search engines, cloud services and web browsers.

Europe is running the risk of falling even further behind global digital market leaders like the United States and China. The EuroStack initiative aims to counter this trend by developing Europe’s own comprehensive digital infrastructure. This industrial policy framework integrates technology, financing, economic development, political governance, sustainability and public interest considerations.

EU OS is a Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free Operating System for the EU public sector. It is a a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment.The added value of EU OS is a common Linux OS as a base for all EU OS users with options to layer on top modifications (national layer, regional or sector-specific layer, organsation-specific layer).

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European alternatives for popular services

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

https://euro-stackletter.eu/

https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/reframetech-algorithmen-fuers-gemeinwohl/project-news/eurostack-a-european-alternative-for-digital-sovereignty

https://eu-os.gitlab.io