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?
Rare earths are everywhere. They’re called rare because they are spread out instead of clumping into ores. You don’t mine them like you do typical metals, you just dig up a ton of dirt and process the rare earths out of it. It’s the processing that’s troublesome, not locating them.