Digital sovereignty gives European cloud a 'window of opportunity'

The OpenInfra Foundation kicked off its first in-person conference in over two years with acknowledgement that European cloud providers must use the current window of opportunity for digital sovereignty. This is before the US-headquartered hyperscalers shut down that opening salvo with their own initiatives aimed at satisfying …

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"the mainly US-based hyperscalers continue to wrestle with the privacy and data sovereignty needs of European citizens"

More likely the data wants of the US government.

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The OpenInfra Foundation

One of its platinum members is Microsoft. Other members include Huawei and ZTE, so the USA will soon stamp on that. Sanctions incoming and OpenInfra will soon toe the line.

-> as long as one is able to actually work the platform.

The real problem with OpenStack is OpenStack. It's just so complex. AWS is complex, but the barrier to entry is low. You can do complex things with AWS, but I would rather face that than the horror show that is OpenStack. If you run OpenStack you need to hire people who know OpenStack very well. If not your life will become OpenStack. You will serve the monster rather than it serving you.

OpenInfra states that it 'helps open source communities build the tools infrastructure operators need', meanwhile AWS actually delivers those tools. If I look at the OpenInfra web site under Project Hosting what do I see? Do I see a really good example of a completed project? No. I see information about building successful open source projects, and sustainability models. If I go to the AWS web site I see about setting up services on AWS.

So instead I go the the All Projects page, and there I find some things. But it is links to other web sites like katacontainers and OpenStack and other things. If I want information about AWS I go to AWS.

While OpenInfra seem to have some good intentions, it seems they can only do that based on pointing out the negatives of companies like Microsoft. So why take sponsorship from them, eh? And one more thing about OpenInfra, a lot of links on the members page give 404 errors. This is the show case for how to do cloud?

Update: the links are working now, but 5 minutes ago they were not.