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by fzumstein 1027 days ago
> By it's very nature these Excel documents will be filled with company data, so I can imagine these companies would also be a bit cautious sending those calculations to the cloud, especially if they can't control the flow of data from their I.T. departments via web applications.

This is exactly what I see when talking to users about xlwings: it needs to run on their end, behind their firewall, in exactly the cloud they have picked (AWS, GCP, Azure).

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I do a lot of work with US state governments, it's the same story mostly. It's possible to get the approvals required for data to be shipped off to some "cloud" but it has to be FedRAMP certified and no data can move outside the contiguous 48 states.