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by shiven 3019 days ago
What's your beef with using "a lot of SaaS services, with no on-premises solution"? Why waste money by locking it into on-premises hardware?
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inetknght 3019 days ago
You missed the entire point.

How do you guarantee that the SaaS you chose is enforcing the privacy of the data you're paying them to process?

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ethbro 3019 days ago
In the same way that AWS wasn't originally certified for government work, and then developed GovCloud: they realized there was a lot of money in it.

If supporting GDPRs is a requirement for having European B2B customers, SaaS providers are going to start certifying against and architecting around that.

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ajbetteridge 3018 days ago
And AWS is already well on this

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/gdpr-center/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-and-the-general-da...

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