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Wait... Lidl has a cloud service now?
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So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.
Years ago I was making the case that instead of digging ourselves into the Amazon eco-system with S3 storage, EC2 instances, DynamoDB and various other Amazon specific cloud products... we should just host virtual machines and have everything in there using open source products. People looked at me like they saw water burning but that would have made the dependency on the US a lot easier to sever. Just move the VM's.
Most cloud VMs have network-attached storage working through a billing layer, and its IOPS numbers are pathetic. This makes running your own DB in a cloud VM much less reasonable. Now you can use local NVMe, but you still have to set up your own failover. The original promise of the cloud is "you pay us less than you pay your sysadmins", which is not entirely unreasonable, especially at early stages. Of course runnin…
Unlike most VPSes
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Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl work as the current CEO of the former led Lidl digital division.
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
> DNB Director Steven Maijoor announced last October that he intended to “set a good example” and switch to a European cloud, though he acknowledged that it “is not yet as robust or high-quality as the one from the U.S.” > Last year, the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) warned that the Dutch financial sector had become too dependent on foreign IT service providers…
Lidl is German, so, not fully national, IMHO
At the very least a country dependent cloud services from multiple other countries is less dependent on any one of them than a country predominantly dependent on one (and most of Europe is currently dependent on US cloud providers).
It’s very much not a discount cloud provider. They are costly unlike their physical discount grocery stores.
Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute.