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by lysace 150 days ago
This is correct. Our company (about 40 people in the engineering team) just did a painful move from homegrown orchestration of EC2 instances to containerized ECS/Fargate.

We will now move to some form of "pure" EU-hosted K8s. No more AWS. I bet we will end up saving lots of money too.

Kubernetes was always the next step. We just didn't know the trigger would be the US going _this_ hostile.

Our marketing director chipped in and thinks it will be worth quite a lot if we can show/say that our service is completely independent of the US - but she wants to say it more diplomatically - exactly how is tbd. I disagree. We should just write it out loud and be proud about it. We'll see.

Perhaps: "We work and live in X land. We run all of services in X land, in facilities owned by people living in X land.