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You have a French perspective, but EU is big and varied. Here in Belgium we do have our own Government Cloud which, while hosted using Broadcom (VMWare) and I

You have a French perspective, but EU is big and varied. Here in Belgium we do have our own Government Cloud which, while hosted using Broadcom (VMWare) and IBM (RedHat Openshift) software is locally owned and controlled. Now, this "cloud" is a misnomer. It is not as automated as AWS. I would rather call it a government hosting provider, but it's doing its job.

sunshine-o 2y ago
> Now, this "cloud" is a misnomer Absolutely. I have seen a lot and usually the smaller the better. I remember the Flemish gov (7M people so quite small) was doing great in this domain. France where everything needs to be centralised, big and controlled is doing terrible I guess. This is why starting the discussion with the concept of "EU" and "Cloud" is wrong. We do not need an aircraft carrier, we need a lot of drones.
- sam_lowry_ 2y ago
  > we need a lot of drones. I agree but for a slightly different reason. EU cloud is not about chasing AWS or GCP or Azure scale and complexity. It's about hosting our businesses and most importantly governments locally. Thus, "cloud" is not an objective but a means to a goal.