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FTA: > The lack of home-grown cloud providers in Europe Not accurate. OVH (France), IONOS (Germany), Scaleway (Sweden) are few examples thar had been serving
by openplatypus 3y ago
FTA:
> The lack of home-grown cloud providers in Europe
Not accurate. OVH (France), IONOS (Germany), Scaleway (Sweden) are few examples thar had been serving customers for years/decades.
On lower end there even more competitors like Servers.com and Hetzner.
The reason AWS is such prevalent is not lack of options. It is VCs pushing "free" credits on their portfolio companies till it became synonymous with cloud for some engineers and founders.
Most are already carbon neutral (nuclear) or renewable powered.
OVH even has patented highly efficient water cooling used on large scale.
Rather than announcing US cloud rivalry, we should make community aware of better, cheaper solution at "home".
- daneel_w 3y agoScaleway is a French venture.
- openplatypus 3y agoAh, sorry, mixed it something else. Thanks for correction.