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Why not focus on having something actually competetive with AWS / gcp / azure? And not, hetzner and OVH are not it.

I think the Gaia-X, Cloudwatt, and similar experiences aren’t big successes so the governments may not want to waste too much money into trying to build an alternative.

I agree that Hetzner isn’t it, they struggle at the object store step apparently, so it’s quite a long road ahead for them.

From my customer point of view, I think scaleway may be the most qualified but I’m not sure they can scale and step up.

Scaleway is actually good. Last time I have tried they didn't have this huge banner that they are european, so I didn't know. Still they look like digitalocean alternative, not huge enterprise level aws alternative.

having something actually competitive with AWS / gcp / azure

They simply can't. It would have happened by now.

Why would anyone build that when you get curb stomped by the three US providers if you try? There's a reason EU providers don't attack that market directly.

Now, if there was a market that were prohibited from using US cloud providers that would give EU providers an actual way to move upmarket.

Previously I think that was true, but it feels to me that there really might be an opportunity to do it now. (And yes, agree that If there was a market that was explicitly prevented from using US tech then it would turbocharge that sentiment). The US has trashed its reputation so completely that if there's any latent desire to shift to EU tech the time to strike would be now.

It demands a lot of resources and EU is also known for over regulations. In the case of OVH, they announced targeting SMEs with no plan to go bigger.

Schwarz Digits, maybe?

I have got lots of downvotes and no critical comments. Why?

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