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Sure, but its turtles all the way down.

How many are hosted on AWS, Google or Microsoft? How many are using Windows or macOS? How many use nvidia, etc.



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"Don't rent from Amazon! Buy from Dell, HP, SuperMicro, Cisco, Juniper, Intel and Nvidia instead."

It's all American below AWS/GCP abstractions as well.


That's the point, we need to start moving away from that and this is how we make a start.


You could say that ASML (Netherlands) and TSMC (Taiwan) are the final turtles though.


Yes, but still important question for the future.


Absence of a (high-level services) cloud provider is a big problem. I hope that changes at some point, but probably impossible to start something like that without measures in place to make the existing offering less attractive.


Imagine GDPR, but for infra — that's the stuff of nightmares.

"EU Committee on Kubernetes."

By the way, that's exactly what China and Russia did — no AWS, GCP, or Azure there.


It's not all or nothing.


Who says it's not all linux and Hetzner/OVH? No need to assume the worsr based on no data.




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