The impact is vast: imagine being blocked by an hostile administration in this way. Disaster recovery of this magnitude is like a global pandemic.
AI won’t save us. Network topology and admins will have their comeback.
The only difference is that when on-prem goes down you can shout to your infra engineers, when cloud goes down you shout at your enterprise cloud representative. The first is more effective, but even with that it still doesn't achieve the same reliability and disaster-recovery of your average cloud provider.
Decentralization is the way.
For all the US’s problems, devolving critical functions to layers of differing granularity has proven surprisingly robust to many faults.
I suspect we’ll see economic equivalents, where critical functions are spread around at various scales. We dont need to be either totally globalized or totally domestic.
I'm not criticizing any country or union here, and not praising them. I merely highlighting that maybe federation on its own is not the main cause of success of USA and there are some other more important factors at play.
Or the Four Pests campaign.
It's not like alternatives for MS services doesn't exist for decades. There smaller and more people friendly hostings, email services, file shares, office software etc. The problem is that people complaining about MS services don't wan't to use them or pay for them.