As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year.

Cloudflare > Bunny.net

AWS > Hetzner

Business email > Infomaniak

Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.

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graemep 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those are all much smaller. Smaller providers have a much stronger incentive to be reliable, as they will lose customers if they are not. In a corporate settings management will say "this would not have happened if you had gone with AWS". its the current version of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" (we had MS and others in between).

Hetzner provides a much simpler set of services than AWS. Less complexity to go wrong.

A lot of people want the brand recognition too. Its also become the standard way of doing things and is part of the business culture. I have sometimes been told its unprofessional or looks bad to run things yourself instead of using a managed service.

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amelius 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Less complexity to go wrong.

This sounds like a good thing.

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graemep an hour ago | parent [-]

It is, in itself.

It does mean that you get fewer services, you have to do more sysadmin internally or use other providers for those which a lot of people are very reluctant to do.

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amelius an hour ago | parent [-]

I bet most people don't even need the extra features.

	▲	graemep an hour ago \| parent [-]
		When forced to use AWS I only use the extra features I am specifically told to or that are already in use in order to make the system less tied to AWS and easier for me to manage (I am not an AWS specialist so its easier for me to just run stuff like I would on any server or VPS). I particularly dislike RDS (of things I have used). I like Lightsail because its reasonably priced and very like just getting a VPS. S3 is something of an exception, but it does not tie you down (everyone provides block storage now, and you can use S3 even if everything else is somewhere else) for me if storing lots of large files that are not accessed very much (so egress fees are low).

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herbst 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Big fan of bunny.net as CDN, however Cloudflare is my "smart" filter for all kind of attacks, AI scrapers, malicious traffic, etc.

Am I missing something or is bunny.net not actually a replacement for that?

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buildfocus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've done something similar, it's worth noting Scaleway in the same space, for people looking for an AWS replacement more like managed services (equivalents to fargate/lambda/sqs/s3/etc) instead of just bare instance hosting.

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moooo99 2 hours ago | parent [-]

+1 for Scaleway. I also use Hetzner for most of my compute. But some stuff just really profits from using managed services. I‘ve used Scaleway‘s Serverless compute offers and managed DBs an been quite happy with them.

	▲	moffkalast 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		-1 for Scaleway, they were a really good deal years ago but have become expensive af

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moffkalast 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Bunny.net

Ah yes, the place for RabbitMQ endpoints.