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US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/14/us-tech-giants-warn-europe-that-ditching-us-tech-giants-could-cost-115b/5303031🥱2
Replying to @JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
“Luxembourg would apparently take the biggest hit, with the study putting the cost at €1,711 per worker over ten years. Denmark (€905), Austria (€900), and Finland (€864) also face hefty bills, as does Ireland (€856)”
Replying to @YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz
forcing businesses to move away from existing cloud infrastructure could trigger expensive software redevelopment projects, with code rewriting and re-architecting accounting for 69 percent of its estimated costs.
~70% of it just to move to another hosting provider? hmmmm
Replying to @myrmidex@belgae.social
Yeah, going from AWS to Hetzner will require doubling your SRE/platform/infra/whatever-you-call-them staff, clearly.
Replying to @waxrhetorical@feddit.dk
We’re on AWS at work. I use Hetzner personally.
The main issue with switching is the services. On AWS we use KMS, SQS, DynamoDB. On hertzner we’d have to run an instance with software for that ourselves and then rewrite systems and do migrations etc. That’s the expense.
Also KMS has no alternate because it’s not just software. It’s a HSM. So where do we store the master keys on Hetzner?
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to do it, not up to me unfortunately.
Replying to @myrmidex@belgae.social
From my software development standpoint that could actually be. AWS and azure have a hefty user lock in that could cost a lot to migrate out of