There's this argument that European cloud providers just can't offer the same breadth of services as something like AWS, and it really annoys me because what AWS offers is merely a subset of what dozens of managed hosting providers offer *and have been offering since before AWS existed*.
When you buy this stuff from a managed hosting provider, they do whatever they have to and hire whoever they need to, to provide you with the service you need. Having a fixed set of predefined services in a fancy control panel (like AWS) is not actually better than this!
(And it's not cheaper either.)
(The idea of predefined 'cloud services' being cheaper originates in the idea that you don't need to hire dedicated staff and can share it with other customers. This is of course a) also true for managed hosting, b) completely distorted by things such as vendor lock-in, and c) irrelevant when you are a literal government-sized organization)
