Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

Post by retired » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

throwaw12 wrote: post #51

RobotToaster wrote: post #33

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Do people actually take claims like that from glorified salesmen seriously? If a car salesman told me I could save 50% of my fuel bill from driving their special car a certain way I'd laugh at them.

You are missing the timeline factor here. 2016 - lets use EC2, its just VM, we can move off 2018 - I see you are hosting your own PostgreSQL in EC2, you can use our managed solution 2020 - you are already using 18 our services (note, at this point you might still be using non-vendor products, like VMs, managed DB, and so on), why not use our IAM instead of rolling out your own auth. 2024 - you are now deeply locked,…

Post by retired » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #98

petervandijck wrote: post #96

I just love that it’s Lidl, of all brands

European central bank will probably go for Aldi.

Post by kriberg » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

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Preventing this from happening requires a clued-in CTO and equivalent senior level leadership who can defend against such 'attack' methods and knows the difference between, for instance, paying a monthly recurring cost to host a Linux/KVM virtual machine and paying for some totally 'cloud' SaAs. Further, it needs people in decision making roles who understand and value the strategic differences between having an infr…

> Preventing this from happening requires a clued-in CTO and equivalent senior level leadership Most CTOs (and increasingly M2s and M3s) I've met are what I call "box architects". You know the ones who love drawing boxes, moving one box inside another box, drawing a line between 2 boxes or changing a unidirectional arrow into a bidirectional one, then declaring the hard part is done and now we need any random enginee…

Post by anfogoat » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 8:19 PM UTC

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #69

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Post by SkiFire13 » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC

lelanthran wrote: post #70

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I prefer not using managed services but I kind of understand the appeal. Instead of paying several engineers, that you have to vet first, to configure and maintain the services adjacent to your product you can just pay AWS or Azure or someone else to maintain the service. Then you can concentrate your whole manpower on your product. In case the service goes down you can blame someone else and maybe even recover some…

> Instead of paying several engineers, that you have to vet first, to configure and maintain the services adjacent to your product you can just pay AWS or Azure or someone else to maintain the service. Your engineers who all have to possess AWS or similar certs before you hire them, work for free? A move off VPS to managed services doesn't reduce your headcount or labour costs.