[EwanToo]

It's pretty common, all the biggest clouds are USA or China owned.

In the UK government services go through information security classification to determine what level of security is needed, with the most confidential stuff still being self-hosted.

I assume most countries operate that way.

[b800h]

There was a UK-based cloud provider. Unfortunately it collapsed, leading to a lot of costly replatforming.

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/cabinet-offic...

[everfrustrated]

Probably couldn't afford their new VMWare bill