> Maybe an unpopular opinion, but imho AWS, GCP and Azure are popular with startups because of their generous free credits, not because they are good tools for startups.
That’s a complete misunderstanding of the cloud’s value proposition. The point of the cloud is to have things “just work” so you can spend more time shipping features and innovating. When I see startups not using it and “rolling their own cloud” by being their own sysadmin I question the strategic decision. To me it’s generally a sign that they failed to raise the appropriate amount of capital and are therefore trading velocity and agility for cost savings.
> So I'm not really sure what part of the ecosystem we are missing here? European companies often have the smaller advertising budget and mindshare, but it isn't like they don't exist.
Also because they can’t scale within a mostly unified 300 million market like US companies can, they have to special case and deal with all special snowflake regulations in every small European country they want to serve.
Plus, that’s not even touching on the engineering talent gap.
That’s a complete misunderstanding of the cloud’s value proposition. The point of the cloud is to have things “just work” so you can spend more time shipping features and innovating. When I see startups not using it and “rolling their own cloud” by being their own sysadmin I question the strategic decision. To me it’s generally a sign that they failed to raise the appropriate amount of capital and are therefore trading velocity and agility for cost savings.
> So I'm not really sure what part of the ecosystem we are missing here? European companies often have the smaller advertising budget and mindshare, but it isn't like they don't exist.
Also because they can’t scale within a mostly unified 300 million market like US companies can, they have to special case and deal with all special snowflake regulations in every small European country they want to serve.
Plus, that’s not even touching on the engineering talent gap.