Comment by kylecazar
1 day ago
I don't see the dependency on these productivity and communication tools as that difficult of a problem to solve.
They are going to have a much harder time weaning off American cloud infrastructure and on to something purely domestic.
Hardware is the biggest problem: PCs (CPUs, RAMs, GPUs), Cellphones, routers, etc.
Globalization appears to be self imploding by virtue of the current american president.
Now everybody realises you can trust no one.
we were over globalized. COVID showed us that when we couldnt even produce life saving medicines domestically. If the take away from world war 1 was too much nationalism, the take away from covid is, too much globalism.
Resilient cultures are by definition market inefficient.
What if there was a culture rooted in the ideology of an 'efficient market'?
I assume, then, that culture would be doomed to fail.
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ScaleWay and OVH are already filling this gap.
I'm also trying Gcore and so far, apart for an intial problem with payments, has been good. It has a lot of services
StackIT is the AWS competitor actually, OVH is not really laid out to be a hyperscaler.
CleverCloud, Hetzner
Good luck with OVH. Most EU companies, including this one, offer subpar services compared to their American counterparts.
Even assuming this is true, EU cloud providers no longer have to compete with their American counterparts on an even footing thanks to the insanity coming out of the White House (and American society more generally). There's a very big push to get off of American providers, and many (though not all) customers are willing to make sacrifices to do so.
If providers like OVH play their cards right, they can use this sudden influx of cash to both scale up, and improve their offerings. There's a lot of money on the table right now.
I use AWS and OVH at work and this has not my experience.
AWS has more services, but a lot of those are of dubious quality. I'd love to never have to use redshift or EMR again for instance. OVH is more basic, but what it has tends to work at least.
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They are fine. Cloud is a commodity. Hetzner and Bunny are pretty great and i am sure there are many more.
The problem is when US decides to ban sales of compute hardware to EU (like they do to China). Then it will be clear who's really in power.
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I think companies should just allocate raw computing and put agnostic stacks on top of it instead of using whatever shinny serverless G-Azurezon Serverless Function Lambda Cloud with NOTREDIS CACHE and LOCAL FLAVOR OF KUBERNETES plus the new OTEL-BUT-INVENTED-HERE monitoring solution.
AWS offers subpar services for their price too
I agree with Scaleway (I would more compare it to Digital Ocean) but OVH is really good and comparable.
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I’ve used OVH for multiple projects and they’ve been wonderful to work with.
> Most EU companies, including this one, offer subpar services compared to their American counterparts
Not true.
But you know what the best thing about the EU companies is ?
Transparent pricing.
EU company: Yes, you really can accurately calculate to the nearest cent how much your compute instance will cost you and exactly what you are getting for that money. No surprises.
US company:Is that Compute Savings Plan, EC2 Savings Plan, On-Demand or Spot. What speed is my network "up to" ? And then of course the big "I DUNNO" in relation to "how many IOPS am I going to be charged for EBS disk transfer ?"
EU company: Of course we don't charge you for LIST etc. on S3. We only charge you for off-network GETs and the associated data transfer, on-network is free.
US company: What do you mean LIST etc. should be free ?
You know what else I like about the EU companies ?
At least two of them allow pay as you go from a reducing credit balance.
Yes that's right US companies. It IS possible to give your customers a way to 100% guarantee you will never have an "oops I just spent a million dollars overnight" moment.
sure, gotta start somewhere.
Jitsi meet exists for long time and it works. What is needed is eu sovereign clouds
They need to do both the hard things and the easy things, and do them in parallel.
Which they are.
Stop being reasonable!
Depends how hooked into the "cloud infrastructure" ecosystem they are. If it's a provider of vms which are easy to move from one provider to another that's one thing, if it's reliant on the latest cool aws thing that's another.