> the title, which is a bit click-baity ... My bad, I took the title from this thread¹ from 2 years ago which mentions that Lidl is planning to launch AWS comp

> the title, which is a bit click-baity ... My bad, I took the title from this thread¹ from 2 years ago which mentions that Lidl is planning to launch AWS competitor. You are correct about German companies distrusting mainstream cloud providers. I guess the target audience for Stackit is mostly those German Mittelstands. I work with German corps and they would definitely have a mainstream provider with someone reliable like Lidl as a backer. In once case we found out the Google Analytics is storing the data in US centers by default and that made a lot of people deeply unhappy. I do have doubts that they might fall short of delivering their goal, but it is indeed an interesting development. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151069