Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
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Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#2> 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
I wonder how much if this is a personal choice, and how much is pressure from the government. Banks are famously the first target of politicians, and it's common in China for exec's to publicly choose a national option under pressure from the CPP.
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#3> 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
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#4Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute.
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#5Years 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.
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#6Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute.
LIDL sells everything you need in your life in the middle aisle. Even cloud solutions.
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#7Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute.
The Schwarz Gruppe (owner of Lidl) makes about as much as Meta and Microsoft. So, yes, they're are big player.
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#8Crazy that a discount grocer can trade blows with big american cloud compute.
Not necessarily trading blows, but LIDL is huge in all sorts of figures. From revenue to employment numbers.
Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#9> 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
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Re: Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
#10Wait... Lidl has a cloud service now?