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US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B (www.theregister.com)
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[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (12 children)

“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)”

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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

[–] waxrhetorical@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, going from AWS to Hetzner will require doubling your SRE/platform/infra/whatever-you-call-them staff, clearly.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

If people are migrating to a platform, usually development takes place to add features to fill gaps and make the platform more attractive. 10-15 years ago we didn’t have well developed cloud computing but it was built by adding features that sucked people in. That can be done again if there is demand.

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