On: EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud

[nhanhi]

Interesting, when was the last time an AWS DC burned down?

I’m all for reducing reliance on big US cloud vendors, but OVH is certainly another extreme.

[Alupis → nhanhi]

I'm unsure if this is fair to OVH. Yes, they had a pretty epic fire not long ago - but their "bread and butter" has been low cost, from what I've gathered (never used them before).

I assume OVH will be building a private "EU Government" cloud of sorts, which may even include new private data centers. Even if they re-use their existing cloud - the government cloud isn't likely to be all in one region etc.

I guess I'm saying, it's better to give OVH (or another major cloud provider within the EU) a chance, even if they're not on-par with AWS et al today.

[everfrustrated → Alupis]

Wasn't it worse than that too - their supposedly independent data centres were all sitting literally next to each other

[blibble → nhanhi]

still a lower risk than having your entire country's internet services turned off by the US regime to gain political leverage