I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.

When I decided to build my startup on European infrastructure, I thought it would be a straightforward swap. Ditch AWS, pick some EU providers, done. How hard could it be?

Turns out: harder than expected. Not impossible, I did it, but nobody talks about the weird friction points you hit along the way. This is that post.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I work in the cloud computing space. The lack of a full featured end-to-end cloud computing provider is really one of the biggest things holding the EU back from IT independence. Its not enough for a provider to provide VM servers or Kubernetes on the compute side, its all the ancillary services such as Advanced Visibility, microservices, advanced routing and load balancing, Enterprise grade HA solutions on both compute and DB side etc.

    A number of EU providers have part of this kind of service offering, but to be a replacement for Azure, AWS, GCP, or OCI, there needs to be a complete solution to enable rapid deployment that can grow to a global solution.