Since now? It was safe before, as in what is happening now was totally impossible before, and somewhat it happens anyway? Do they started to care about making backups after they lost data?
Risk is not about "something happened, so it may happen again", but if something bad can happen, if it is possible, and maybe weight it as probable or not. Black swans exists, and if you bet everything on that they not, you may lose everything.
And the process of moving government and societies to some controlled by a foreign power cloud takes time to get in, and to get out. And you can't tell that something bad was being done while showing a smiling face.
It is not something coming out of the blue. There was strong signals of intervention back to the start of internet, and a more or less official confirmation of what was happening in the shadow with Snowden's revelations. But somewhat is now when that is perceived as a risk.
The only clear difference between now and even not that long ago is the fair perception that the US has flipped from (probably) "lawful neutral" to "chaotic evil".
Secrets in US cloud were probably never fully safe.. but at least the US wasn't previously on a path to inflict pain on the rest of the world.
the US government was invading and bombing people for decades and the EU did nothing. "chaotic evil" my ass, the only reason they're moving now is because MAGA is threatening them directly via Greenland, or indirectly, by pulling out of NATO and backing Russia.
It has always been unsafe, it is very questionable under the GDPR (though governments are obviously excluded from the GDPR itself), and lots of governments and companies have been using or working on alternatives. But the temptation of of US clouds has been strong, and now is a good time to remember everyone who previously thought the benefits outweighed the risks
Risk is not about "something happened, so it may happen again", but if something bad can happen, if it is possible, and maybe weight it as probable or not. Black swans exists, and if you bet everything on that they not, you may lose everything.
And the process of moving government and societies to some controlled by a foreign power cloud takes time to get in, and to get out. And you can't tell that something bad was being done while showing a smiling face.
It is not something coming out of the blue. There was strong signals of intervention back to the start of internet, and a more or less official confirmation of what was happening in the shadow with Snowden's revelations. But somewhat is now when that is perceived as a risk.