A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
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Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#2> green
ambitious, applaudable, but doomed to market realities
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#3I kind of struggled to find the name of the company in the start of the article.
Turns out its https://evroc.com
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#4I kind of struggled to find the name of the company in the start of the article. Turns out its https://evroc.com
It’s in the subheading:
> Having just raised a €13m pre-seed round, evroc aims to raise €3bn within the next two years
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#5Would never use a cloud service simply because "its European", it's got to be better and cheaper than AWS.
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#6They want to create competing to US cloud companies in Europe. If I understand the business strategy as presented they initially will target companies that can't use US cloud for legal reasons, so US clouds can't even compete (so the competition while they get off the ground is small scale cloud providers in Europe), which will then give them a base from which to fight the big clouds for clients.
Quick googling says that AWS, Azure and GCP have 69% of the European cloud market. I wonder how big Europe is for their overall profits, and if this could potentially be a big problem for then in the future.
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#7I think there’s an opportunity for an IkeaCloud or AldiCloud that is just barebones and cheap but still is a proper cloud.
Given that Microsoft and google are struggling to match aws it seems we’re still decades away from someone truly being able to deliver the same features, scale, and reliability.
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#8Would never use a cloud service simply because "its European", it's got to be better and cheaper than AWS.
Seems they're aiming to capture the market of people who want "green" clouds, not "European" clouds. Besides, if you just want better and cheaper AWS, there is so many options already.
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#9If the concern mentioned in this article of "Americans can view sensitive data on European citizens," they should just go the route China did - it hosts its own version of AWS that's pretty walled off, from what I know.
Re: A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
#10I think there’s an opportunity for an IkeaCloud or AldiCloud that is just barebones and cheap but still is a proper cloud. Given that Microsoft and google are struggling to match aws it seems we’re still decades away from someone truly being able to deliver the same features, scale, and reliability.
Doesn't this already exist in the form of Digital Ocean, Linode/Akamai, OVH, etc.?