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OVH is the largest European cloud company. Amazon, Google and Microsoft don't count as European. As a user of both, the price different may not be 75x, but I w
by pmeunier 5y ago
OVH is the largest European cloud company. Amazon, Google and Microsoft don't count as European.
As a user of both, the price different may not be 75x, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were in the 10x-20x range. The polish is also quite different, and is consistent with the price difference.
- garmaine 5y agoAmazon runs data centers in Europe. They are therefore “in Europe.” The distinction you are looking for is “European owned,” I think.
- pmeunier 5y agoThanks, that's actually why I wrote "European" rather than "in Europe", both in the blog post and in my previous comment. I'm glad to know that you agree with that distinction.
- littlestymaar 5y agoThe author (which is also the GP, btw) explicitly talks about what “in Europe” vs “not in Europe” means in the context of this post: > In our case, we have a number of requirements linked to the fact that we host user-generated content, and we know our users may not want to be subjected to censorship by other countries or organisations. Since 2018, the CLOUD act directly enables the US administration to enforce US law onto data stored in any other country, whenever the hosting company is registered in the US. Amazon's server are physically located on the European continent, but there are under the American jurisdiction which is the problem the author talks about. Btw, did you know that there are in fact no data center at all on Europe[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)
- edoceo 5y agoThat's Europa, it's a moon.