Having worked with all major European clouds: Good luck, have fun opening a lot of support cases for things that should work ootb.

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jimnotgym 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Did you ever do it while waiving a $50m cheque though?

	▲	ExoticPearTree 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		$50mm does mot get go very far. We’re a pretty small company (200 people) compared to Airbus and pay about $2mm/yr for cloud.

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letmetweakit 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's better than having the rug pulled from under your company one day. This is the point in history we're at unfortunately.

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DaSHacka 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> It's better than having the rug pulled from under your company one day. This is the point in history we're at unfortunately.

Source?

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letmetweakit 2 days ago | parent [-]

Source??? A US administration that is completely out of control.

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DaSHacka a day ago | parent [-]

They're doing what they were voted in to do though? Most of what they're doing has high baseline approval ratings, just not in the specific implementation.

	▲	avh02 a day ago \| parent [-]
		They've done great with those Epstein files. Totally published everything./s

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nxm 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is pure fear-mongering

	▲	apelapan 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Tell that to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Why wouldn't a bunch of Airbus executives be next in line to be sanctioned by the US? They represent a threat to the profitability of Boeing.

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abc123abc123 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do, works perfectly if you know what you're doing. If you have no clue, jump to AWS and enjoy the lockin, if you do, jump to a EU provider, and enjoy not being locked in, and a vastly lower cost.

	▲	jasonvorhe 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"if you know what you're doing" lol my team has worked with every major cloud provider for a decade, but sure it's all our fault because incompetence. good luck man. edit: I never even implied that AWS lock-in something positive. I'm getting paid to move companies from cloud to on-prem because that's true sovereignty.
	▲	nxm 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Great - an anecdote. Most company leaders just want to focus on their core business on top of proven tech that works.

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sunshine-o 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One of the reason is a lot of those "EU Sovereign Clouds" were malicious cash grabs.

It happened several times in the last decade:

- First politicians raise the alarm about "digital sovereignty"

- Then some create new EU sovereign clouds that are pitched/forced on corporations

- They usually do not work, get consolidated and then the scam is revealed

The biggest reveal was when we discovered and warned one of our client the Orange "Sovereign Cloud" (French telco partially owned by the government !) and built to host European most sensitive worloads was just handed over and run by Huawei [0] [1]. They were not the only one who did something like that.

I don't want to put actors like Hertzner in the same bag as they seem to be honest and really compete to offer a cheaper alternative to hyperscalers.

- [0] https://www.huawei.com/en/huaweitech/publication/winwin/29/o...

- [1] https://www.techmonitor.ai/hardware/cloud/orange-introduces-...

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everfrustrated a day ago | parent [-]

Didn't the Spanish govt just award Huawei a contract for their lawful intercept program? You can't make it up.

	▲	zrn900 a day ago \| parent [-]
		There isnt any irony here. Huawei equipment was investigated by British and German intelligence agencies and was found to have no backdoors. That's why some countries are heavily buying it.