As far as I know they initially essentialy leased out the technology to an independent operator, but stopped doing that quite a while ago. No hard source to point to tough.
This was winding down about 12 months ago, unsure of the current status of it.
It's the same model they use for operating in China.
From an operational perspective this makes things very hard - as you don't actually get access to the services - you need to run an operator from the independent company through the troubleshooting / mitigation for any incident.
Could you point me to the source. I was under the impression it is dead and Deutsche Telekom now collaborates with Google Cloud on the so called Sovereign Cloud [1].
Deutsche Telekom [0]:
"In den DE-Versionen Daten-Speicherung der Kundendaten ausschließlich in sicheren Rechenzentren in Deutschland mit der Zugangskontrolle durch den unabhängigen Datentreuhändern T-Systems"
This sounds as if Microsoft would not have access to data, which is managed by T-Systems independently. But there might of course be something in the fine print.
My browser is set to prefer English, cookie banners etc. are working, but the rest of the site won't switch, cannot find a button to manually switch either.
You probably need different staff or something, pretending to be a separate EU company but blindly running all the software and scripts that the US team tells you to doesn't really achieve much.
