Does this effect the switch from Google to Microsoft

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

Maybe (see: unlikely, as the transition is still ongoing just much slower), but this was in Feb https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/cabinet_office_micros...

Sounds like they were asked for pretty broad guarantees. Not sure there is anything of substance here. Note the “any service”:

> “The sovereignty measures committed to by Microsoft do NOT extend to support of any services – this will always be likely to result in international transfers

this data sovereignty issue is almost certainly going to come up with the UK NHS / Palantir Federated Data Platform[0] which is going to be using Microsoft and AWS cloud services.

[0] https://blog.palantir.com/palantir-and-the-nhs-dd1362982fa9