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I really don't understand the obsession with AWS-like EU clouds. The EU cloud may win only by shifting the paradigm. Take Microsoft Office as an example. For
by sam_lowry_ 1y ago
I really don't understand the obsession with AWS-like EU clouds.
The EU cloud may win only by shifting the paradigm.
Take Microsoft Office as an example.
For many years, Open Source and businesses tried to make a Microsoft Office competitor by mimicking Microsoft Office. Naturally, all clones were worse than the original and they either failed or stuck in their small niche... until Google changed the paradigm and rolled out Google Docs that had a unique feature of online collaboration.
Then was the turn of Microsoft to mimic collaboration features of Google Docs in Microsoft Office and be worse at it almost by definition.
Another example is S3.
For years, businesses tried to have POSIX-capable filesystems seamlessly scale in size and in availability. It took Amazon to roll out a simpler alternative that, by having a smaller set of features, enables so much sought properties of distributed file systems in an efficient and commercially viable way.
Back to EU clouds.
Scaleway tried replicating AWS, but they are and will always be a worse AWS than AWS itself. That Microsoft and Google could force their way through is more of a marketing win and just proves my point.
- rightbyte 1y ago> I really don't understand the obsession I think it is some strange way to try to push for some sort of pan-european jingoism and/or profit from it.
- benterix 1y agoActually S3 is a good example - it became the new de-facto standard for object storage management, and is used both by open source projects like minio and other clouds alike. This benefits the users/customers as switching from AWS S3 to another solution is a bit less painful. What Amazon did with AWS, offering access to compute, storage and other services, was a good thing, and many EU cloud providers are implementing a small subset of their core services already. It's a good thing, there are no downsides really.
- bot403 1y agoThe gem of a point here is that a solid set of core services can go a very long way. You don't need to emulate beanstalk, sagemaker, lightsail, appsync and the like. What you need is CloudFront,vpc, ec2, albs, RDS, S3, ecs, and other base services and many businesses can build a lot of great things.
- johannes1234321 1y agoThe question is: can you shift the paradigm enough for sometm alternative to S3 storage or so it better to benefit from the ecosystem and differentiate in other ways (legal framework etc) Any cloud has and will develop there own services as differentiators, but using common standards eases adoption.