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Funny how Germany is obsessed with privacy, yet the cookie consent prompt requires extra clicks to decline the consent.
Germany weaponises data privacy and uses it to lock out foreign competitors.
I do not understand the purpose of AWS style cloud platforms. What's wrong with Hetzner or Contabo? What is the advantage of paying 270€ per month for a 60GB RAM instance with 8 cores if you can get the same instance on Contabo for 27€? It really feels like these cloud platforms are following the Microtransaction model of mobile games.
As long as I can't provision these service myself without having to "call for advice" I am not using it irregardless of the price. It's 2022 and any company still hiding behind "call for pricing" or "call for quote" that isn't servicing government agencies is going to be eaten alive by any other provider not making customer run thought hoops. They claim they are the German AWS when they miss the first thing that Bezo…
This service isn't for you. At least not for now. This service right now is for already big companies, probably non-IT ones, looking to outsource their datacenter needs, in a GDPR compliant manner, and looking to do more "digital" in the future. These kinds of players do not look for one-click solutions, they are looking for actual people to discuss their individual requirements. Maybe latter on this thing will do AW…
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AWS is huge. The entire Lidl group made €57bn last year. Just AWS made about $62bn, so pretty much the same thing. And AWS is growing about 30% per year. More than that, AWS is just one piece of the pie. Azure supposedly made about $38bn last year, also growing by about 30% per year. Alibaba and GCP both made about $10bn and they're both growing at about the same pace as Azure and AWS. And I didn't even include IBM o…
>The entire Lidl group made €57bn last year. Just AWS made about $62bn, so pretty much the same thing. While you have a point in general, I have no idea from where you got your numbers... Lidl had revenue of 100.8bn EUR (~108bn USD) in 2021, the entire Schwarz Group of 133.6bn EUR [0]. >How much is Lidl actually investing in this? Nitpicking, but Lidl isn't, Schwarz Group is. I suppose how much they will invest is a…
Their products lead to a complex "Get advice now" form. Guess I'll stick with my 'Made in Cyprus' VPS provider that lets me create and destroy VPS instances with a couple of clicks for a similar price.
Can u name the company?
Even the tsystems cloud was / is shit and now they think they can just do it?
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I agree. I'd love to see European institutions to begin using European software and infrastructure. I feel like we have lots of puzzle pieces already, I'd add ONLYOFFICE to the mix, which would be very important to replace Google Drive / Docs / Sheets or Microsoft 365. They even have a free personal tier to test the waters.
You might be interested in the "Public Money, Public Code" campaign of the Free Software Foundation in Europe (FSFE). https://publiccode.eu/ In my experience with government organizations, the argument that public tax money should be used for public/free re-usable software instead of funding proprietary development (essentially subsidizing R&D of foreign corporations), really strikes a nerve on all administrative lev…
Whatever it is I wouldnt really want to trust my infrastructure and data to a food retailer on their first attempt at providing IT services. That sentance should be enough warning.
Do they even understand how difficult it is to be AWS? They had to write off over €500m on a botched implementation of SAP. Are they trying to apply their no frills low cost philosophy to cloud services, do they think thats going to be enough? Whatever it is I wouldnt really want to trust my infrastructure and data to a food retailer on their first attempt at providing IT services. That sentance should be enough warn…
Do they even understand how difficult it is to be AWS? They had to write off over €500m on a botched implementation of SAP. Are they trying to apply their no frills low cost philosophy to cloud services, do they think thats going to be enough? Whatever it is I wouldnt really want to trust my infrastructure and data to a food retailer on their first attempt at providing IT services. That sentance should be enough warn…