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I've been working for a few years in the field. All the places I worked at were using those two, getting partnerships, certifications, etc.

The ranges of services they offer is quite crazy. Performance monitoring? Here's a tool. Certificate management? Here's a tool. DDoS protection? Here's a tool. All of them integrated and accessible via command line interface.

AWS and Azure built their expertise over decades, and have financial and technical resources that any European company can only dream of.

Those two platforms are just very good at what they do, it will probably be difficult for a European alternative to emerge. The financial investment would need to be substantial, and the European platform wouldn't probably reach maturity before a few years.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not really. Email can be replaced by European alternatives.

Amazon has local competitors, there was a thread listing them yesterday.

PayPal exists locally, most of the European countries have a national equivalent.

The cloud domain is a bit different due to the infrastructure needed to offer a similar service

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are no monopolies on EU market. Itโ€™s a blessing and a curse. 10 mid sized companies will never able to provide as much as one mega corp. Mega corp can throw budget of one company into R&D and it wonโ€™t feel it while 10 companies can only do fraction and fear collapsing. There is answer to that - standardization. Which is (mostly) default property of one big solid entity like mega corps but for 10 companies it needs to be enforced. EU doesnโ€™t need 10 PayPals. It needs 10 companies running standardized (federated if you wish), interoperable but independent payment platform.

Itโ€™s of course my ignorant opinion with 0 knowledge in legislations and finance. But as developer I have natural hate to copy-paste solutions

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

EU doesnโ€™t need 10 PayPals. It needs 10 companies running standardized (federated if you wish), interoperable but independent payment platform.

https://wero-wallet.eu/