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Europe and European governments can no longer rely on American clouds. A European alternative won’t emerge on its own. That’s why it’s time for industrial policy—but it won’t be easy.

In this post, I explore the challenges and immodestly propose a coherent strategy to develop European alternatives: berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-

Bert Hubert's writings · But how to get to that European cloud? - Bert Hubert's writings
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@bert_hubert I’m not sure I saw OVH mentioned anywhere and it’s fairly big in Europe from what I have in mind.

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@artemismucaj nothing advanced I tried there worked well. They are big in terms of renting virtual machines though.

@bert_hubert really? I would have said 4 - 5 🤣 they have quite the number of managed alternatives available (database, container orchestration, even AI stuff. However I agree that if half of those are broken / not widely used in production (which I don’t know as i have never used their cloud) then maybe you get a bad ROI by using them instead of self hosting!