I’m looking to ditch them in the United States too
Last time I tried an independent data center, IBM snatched them up and the enshittifying commenced.
It’s a great move, I 100% support. But I worry too many people don’t realize that it’s a long journey we’re just starting. A multi-years journey, if not decades long. The change, if change there is, won’t be instant. It also won’t be painless, seeing how so many people expect things to ‘just work’ a few may feel a little… frustrated. And this will also have a monetary cost too.
Businesses have been burned by Russia after the war started.
Now you have Trump behaving like a lovesick puppy towards Putin, talking about invading a free territories, the shadow president giving the salute. It can cost a lot to be stuck on the wrong side of the line when things get war-like.
Many will want to reduce that risk.
Our datacenter infrastructure is currently mostly hosted on Azure, some on a Fujitsu DC. We used to be 100% in-house many years ago. How funny it would be if we had to go back to that in order to save costs.
What was also funny (to me) is how Azure was absolutely no-go after having tested it because of the lackluster performance (compared to our then-live platform). But as soon as MS sweetened the deal contract-wise, suddenly there were no lingering performance issues anymore.
Those dozens of emails of irate customers with ass-slow systems tell me differently, but ok. I’m not the one making millions in bonuses; the people who do surely know better than I do. I just get paid to tell those poor customers to fuck off in a more polite way.
I remember the “everything has to be cloud” days too.
The fool falls for it everytime.
Wish I had the charisma to have someone shoot themself in their own foot and pay me for it.
If you or a loved one is affected by this predicament, I can vouche for going provider agnostic, or even multi-provider, with (ansible or pyinfra) + podman.
Usefull, not only in times of mercantillism, but makes it easy to migrate when pricing changes, as well.
