Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud (opens in new tab)

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3 pointscan3p2y ago3 comments

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> Europe has precisely nothing that competes, and is 100% dependent on the ‘IKEA clouds’. We only have partial companies.

I don't know what the author think "100% dependent", but Scaleway (aka online.net) served me well.

They have pretty much everything i need from AWS. The only problem I have is: their employee cant speak English.

ahubert2y ago

Hi - I know about Scaleway, it is <0.1% of the size of AWS, and it is very French as you noted. Still they are doing good work.

j16sdiz2y ago

> And crucially, none of them offer the “infinite” scaling services for which AWS/Azure/GCP are famous. Nor is there any AI (except a bit over at OVH).

maybe that's a recent changes, but those companies he listed have exactly that

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j16sdiz2y ago

> Europe has precisely nothing that competes, and is 100% dependent on the ‘IKEA clouds’. We only have partial companies.

I don't know what the author think "100% dependent", but Scaleway (aka online.net) served me well.

They have pretty much everything i need from AWS. The only problem I have is: their employee cant speak English.

ahubert2y ago

Hi - I know about Scaleway, it is <0.1% of the size of AWS, and it is very French as you noted. Still they are doing good work.

j16sdiz2y ago

> And crucially, none of them offer the “infinite” scaling services for which AWS/Azure/GCP are famous. Nor is there any AI (except a bit over at OVH).

maybe that's a recent changes, but those companies he listed have exactly that

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