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One data point, that I just found after a few clicks: Homepage of the 'Council of the European Union' (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/). On opening, loads resources from 'newsroomcdnakamai.azureedge.net'.

If compliance is such a breeze, I wonder why the very institutions that took part in creating those regulations are not able to comply (after almost 5 years now)?

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Are you sure newsroomcdnakamai.azureedge.net is non-compliant?

From client IPs within the EU, that domain resolves to EU-based hosting locations, so it's plausible that all of the PII protections and contracts are in place.

Yes: the point is that it is owned & controlled by Microsoft. The actual location of the data processing doesn't matter if the parent company is bound to US jurisdiction (which Microsoft is).

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