[jamesblonde]

The blocking of services on Hetzner and Scaleway by Microsoft is well known -

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeroen-jacobs-8209391_somethi...

I didn't know AWS and GCP also did it. Not surprised.

The problem is that European regulators do nothing about such anti-competitive dirty tricks. The big clouds hide behind "lots of spam coming from them", which is not true.

[lossyalgo]

First comment on that post claims that according to Mimecast, 37% of EU-based spam originates from Hetzner and Digital Ocean. People have been asking for 3 days for a link to the source (I can't find it either).

On the other hand, someone linked a report from last year[0]:

> 72% of BEC attacks in Q2 2024 used free webmail domains; within those, 72.4% used Gmail. Roughly ~52% of all BEC messages were sent from Gmail accounts that quarter.

[0] https://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q2_2024.pdf