Yes but this is a simple migration away. The system itself and its adoption are far bigger barriers.
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Also, when Wero started, Trump hadn’t started to set the world on fire yet, so the geopolitical angle was far less pronounced. Until Jan 2025, hosting an EU service on AWS was not controversial.
Centralized problems are generally easier to solve than distributed problems. Depending on their architecture moving to an EU cloud provider could range from tricky but manageable to very painful , but it’s a centralized IT problem that can be attacked and solved. Getting every retail vendor to support Wero is much harder, and is being solved apparently.
While true, the AWS infrastructure in Europe is somewhat sovereign from the parent company and under stricter regulation and oversight. Granted, it’s not a perfect solution but a good one for the moment.
I don’t know much about the payment processors but I would assume Visa and MasterCard run on their own hardware? Or are they also tied to a cloud provider these days?
The article omits that Wero is running on top of AWS. So still the same problem, just slightly lower in the stack.
Yes but this is a simple migration away. The system itself and its adoption are far bigger barriers.
Also, when Wero started, Trump hadn’t started to set the world on fire yet, so the geopolitical angle was far less pronounced. Until Jan 2025, hosting an EU service on AWS was not controversial.
Centralized problems are generally easier to solve than distributed problems. Depending on their architecture moving to an EU cloud provider could range from tricky but manageable to very painful , but it’s a centralized IT problem that can be attacked and solved. Getting every retail vendor to support Wero is much harder, and is being solved apparently.
While true, the AWS infrastructure in Europe is somewhat sovereign from the parent company and under stricter regulation and oversight. Granted, it’s not a perfect solution but a good one for the moment.
https://aws.eu/european-sovereign-cloud/
I don’t know much about the payment processors but I would assume Visa and MasterCard run on their own hardware? Or are they also tied to a cloud provider these days?
From a few IPs that I checked, all were served by ASN2559 which would belong to Visa directly. They seem to have a lot of services according to shodan
MasterCard is ASN26380 and has a smaller footprint on shodan, but still many hits
So both seem have their own data centers. Doesn’t mean, that they won’t use AWS/Azure/GCP/… if they see a benefit.