Is there any Europe-based PaaS currently operating, that are noteworthy? Most companies seems to be US-based.
That thought reminds me of a conversation in an episode of Yes Prime Minister:
> Hacker: I sometimes wonder why we need the [nuclear] weapons.
> Sir Humphrey: Minister! You're not a unilateralist?
> Hacker: I sometimes wonder, you know.
> Sir Humphrey: Well, then, you must resign from the government!
> Hacker: Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not that unilateralist! Anyway, the Americans will always protect us from the Russians, won't they?
> Sir Humphrey: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians?
> Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent.
> Sir Humphrey: It's to protect us against the French!
For you maybe, but not for me :) I just took advantage of the threat to ask a slightly unrelated question (although parent mentioned Ireland as well, so maybe slightly on topic at least)
"Currently operating": yes, steadily, for seven years now.
"Noteworthy": yes, I really hope we are, at least, we have been quite newsworthy recently
"Most companies seems to be US-based": well, we have US employees and we are running on top of US based companies infrastructure, amongst others.
o/
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Edit: Apparently not! Didn't even have to sign up to the service (just loaded the landing page) and my data ended up on some US-based (Google) entity's servers (fonts.googleapis.com).
Looks like a nice platform, unfortunately doesn't seem too privacy-aware so gonna have to find something else.
You also have a variety of smaller providers hosting OpenStack, which gives you some platformy services.