Please be large and good enough for my company to consider it as usable, instead of Google and M$.
That's going to take a lot of engineering investment and I really, really hope they understand this and pull it off.
Seeing this made me think it might make sense for EU to fund a software stack that allows any location to become a "region" in aws terms. Existing datacentres could assign parts of their infra to such setup. Customers could have a single UI and UX to use.
Take a look into openstack. It has most of this baked in. Keystone is the way you can use the same APIs across multiple providers.
Aren’t there already cloud computing companies in Europe? I use OVH from France in my company.
And https://www.scaleway.com/en/ already exists too and it's probably the most comparable to the us hyperscalers in terms of features. Not sure why more work is done to take advantage of the head start provided by them in coming up with sovereign EU solutions.
I'm sorry, but I don't necessarily believe this is great news. Not trying to be pessimistic here, but as long as they're gonna be the only ones out there, they're gonna end up just like M$, one big monopolistic cloud provider. Doesn't matter where it's based, still a monopoly.
Now I'm not saying others aren't gonna pop in and do something similar. If that's the case, that's great, but if not, we're just gonna make the same mistake all over again. We need competition, right now we don't have that because M$/Amazon/Google have all the power.
It kinda doesn't apply to cloud providers though, but I really believe decentralization is the only sustainable way forward. In the world of cloud providers and similar, competition and multiple options/providers is the key. We don't need more monopolies.
