I’ve been working for a few years in the field. All the places I worked at were using those two, getting partnerships, certifications, etc.
The ranges of services they offer is quite crazy. Performance monitoring? Here’s a tool. Certificate management? Here’s a tool. DDoS protection? Here’s a tool. All of them integrated and accessible via command line interface.
AWS and Azure built their expertise over decades, and have financial and technical resources that any European company can only dream of.
Those two platforms are just very good at what they do, it will probably be difficult for a European alternative to emerge. The financial investment would need to be substantial, and the European platform wouldn’t probably reach maturity before a few years.
Thoughts?
Nobody in the corner offices, or any the BoD’s of these companies cares about any of that technical stuff. They see this as an existential risk to their companies. Imagine being cut off from your entire computing environment, including your data, without any warning.
Cost and tooling aren’t going to be a factor. I would be very surprised if every CIO in Europe hasn’t been tasked with putting together a plan to get off American cloud services ASAP.