when I bring slightly the idea we could host our operations, I am seen like the crazy one
Interestingly enough, it's the opposite at my company. Mostly due to how damn fucking expensive things like AWS are.
We priced out a VM host, and we determined that if we strongly policed turning off the VMs when we weren't using them, using AWS would cost as much as a completely new local VM host every 6 months. And again, that is IF we police the fuck out of turning off the VMs, which we all knew wouldn't happen.
If you live in the EU or UK, sign it.
These aren't just a petition that can be ignored, these actually have a legal process tied to them.