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> This is great, your suggestion to replace s3 and ddb is to run some VMs? Well... yes? What do you think the AWS S3 and DDB is running on? Fairy dust?
No it’s using an army of extremely well paid engineers, something I guarantee the parent comment has no access to
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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,…
(Tesco cloud compute will price-match the lidl cloud-compute, but only if you remember to scan your Tesco clubcard at the self-checkout while buying it.)
Here’s the service: https://stackit.com/en
I'm sure the actual management interface is a separate thing but still, this website is unreal. Feels like a repurposed, half baked WordPress theme.
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.
I just love that it’s Lidl, of all brands
European central bank will probably go for Aldi.
https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-accelerates-its-eu...
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I am running my startup out of a self build GPU server from our office with a backup to the cloud. I only pay for the IP address as electricity is included in the rent. If the startup fails, Ill have thousand other potential use case for it and in the worst case, it will make for a awesome gaming machine. The machine is a beast and I can serve a lot of users with it. In fact, and quite funnily, I already serve much m…
How does your startup setup applies to a bank?
All of the discussed alternatives (stackit, scaleway, aldi) are owned by European billionnaires.
Stackit is owned by Dieter Schwarz (who inherited everything he has ever owned)
Aldi cloud is owned by Beate Heister and Karl Albrecht (both children of the real founders, Karl and Theo Albrecht. Together they are probably the richest Germans)
Scaleway is owned by Xavier Niel (free.fr, who was born high middle class and at least can be said to have built out his empire)
The only owner here that is even remotely interested in the business is Xavier Niel. To add insult to injury, all 3 are known for being extremely cheap when it comes to wages (Xavier Niel less so than the others, but it's not great)
> 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…