> The lack of home-grown cloud providers in Europe
Not accurate. OVH (France), IONOS (Germany), Scaleway (Sweden) are few examples thar had been serving customers for years/decades.
On lower end there even more competitors like Servers.com and Hetzner.
The reason AWS is such prevalent is not lack of options. It is VCs pushing "free" credits on their portfolio companies till it became synonymous with cloud for some engineers and founders.
Most are already carbon neutral (nuclear) or renewable powered.
OVH even has patented highly efficient water cooling used on large scale.
Rather than announcing US cloud rivalry, we should make community aware of better, cheaper solution at "home".
> The lack of home-grown cloud providers in Europe
Not accurate. OVH (France), IONOS (Germany), Scaleway (Sweden) are few examples thar had been serving customers for years/decades.
On lower end there even more competitors like Servers.com and Hetzner.
The reason AWS is such prevalent is not lack of options. It is VCs pushing "free" credits on their portfolio companies till it became synonymous with cloud for some engineers and founders.
Most are already carbon neutral (nuclear) or renewable powered.
OVH even has patented highly efficient water cooling used on large scale.
Rather than announcing US cloud rivalry, we should make community aware of better, cheaper solution at "home".