Wouldn't it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies "looking for alternatives" was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?
Yeah, unfortunately the cloud providers did exactly what they wanted,put companies into the daunting task of trying to migrate off their platforms. It was designed so that you would slowly become dependent on your provider.
It's why I push k8s and cloud native everywhere. Never depend on your provider. Hell, span over multiple providers if you can. The only thing I approve of in a manger service is databases, it's just too easy, but it's also relatively easy to migrate to a new db provider.
The whole world needs to de risk from US companies. The right wing authoritarianism is here to stay.
There's a lot of insider talk in tech about moving back to colo or to hybrid cloud, away from cloud-native.
The lock-in, the bloat, the over-complexity... convincing companies that they needed to be prepared to "hyperscale" because they totally absolutely definitely were about to go unicorn overnight was just a scam.
Two European-based cloud service companies, Exoscale and Elastx, tell WIRED they have seen an uptick in potential customers looking to abandon US cloud providers over the last two weeks
Are these any good? Are there others? As an American, I’m 100% on board with getting my digital footprint out of this country and into the EU somewhere, so I’d love to know!
There are others, but I do not know if they're good or not.
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-platforms
It depends on what you're looking for.
File storage - plenty of solutions, though make sure you don't pick one that rents their storage space from AWS or Azure.
Personally I use Tresorit at it is end-to-end encrypted, easy to use and has a native client for almost every system I use (except for FreeBSD) in addition to the web interface. On your PC you get a network drive but can also include folders located elsewhere. It's by no means the cheapest solutio though.
For pictures there's Ente. It works very well, is cross-platform, and you can even set up your own server if you're so inclined.
Sadly there's no real alternative to Microsoft's 365 offers - maybe a combination of lifetime MS Office licences or LibreOffice plus some cloud storage provider comes close.
To replace Teams you could use a secure messenger such as Threema Work (this version comes with user management and a versatile inbuilt MDM) and your own Jitsi videochat server. We've replaced Teams with this combo years ago and never looked back.
Hosted Exchange can be rented from many service providers, running on either genuine MS Exchange or a compatible third-party system such as KerioConnect.
There are also other places such as Proton that offer several services at once.
Or are you looking for something completely different?
Shiiit ... I'm just over hear in the midwest US, slightly relieved to learn that Crypo.com is based in Singapore.
That said, how the hell is Europe still guzzling this cloud kool-aide? Is a Jelly-fin, LDAP/etc, and/or Database server really so much more than cities of millions' infrastructure peeps can wrap their minds around?
Oh right, ars is US-centric. The point of the article is to make the EU sound like helpless morons. Guess I might have to edit this comment after I read the article ... nevermind, any additional nuance is down to the number of words they spent saying little of consequence. The myopia is more big-tech and cloud-centric than anything along national lines.
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