Hypothesis: the big three US cloud providers are not really trying to be competitive in the European market. Their EU datacenters price in the convenience of a

Hypothesis: the big three US cloud providers are not really trying to be competitive in the European market. Their EU datacenters price in the convenience of a consistent dev/ops story when a US company extends its primarily US footprint into Europe. They are a bad deal for entirely European ops, but this story doesn’t generalize to the US. US dedicated server pricing is much closer to cloud pricing.