How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing
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A unit of Europe’s largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google
  • carrylex@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t want to say anything against their efforts because competition in a market is always great, but their product pricing and setup is just laughable.

    Example: 4vCPU 16GB RAM Instance

    • Stackit(Scharz/Lidl): 120€/month, 4 locations
    • AWS: 110€/month, with saving plan: 60€/month, 30+ locations
    • OVH: 70€/month, 16+ locations
    • Hetzner: 7-12€/month, 5 locations

    For who is the pricing designed? Super big companies where management is dumb enough to buy that crap? “We have to host there because our companies CEO knows their CEO” situations?

    There are a ton of other EU companies that get the job done a lot better.