Before that, 2\u20133 years had been spent with development work and capital injections:<\/p>\n
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- https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/evroc-reveals-plans-to-build-europes-first-sovereign-hyperscale-cloud-301841271.html<\/a><\/li>\n
- https:\/\/stories.eqtventures.com\/articles\/on-eqt-ventures-investment-in-evroc-the-cloud-to-reimagine-the-digital-future-of-europe<\/a><\/li>\n
- https:\/\/evroc.com\/news\/evroc-series-a<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It looked really exciting \u2014 finally, an initiative with proper funding and big ambitions. Yesterday I finally had time to try it out. I managed to \u201csign up\u201d and \u201csign in\u201d with my credit card. So far, so good. Small steps \u2014 but at least, on paper, we finally have a public cloud in the Nordics with self-service!<\/p>\n
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So how does it work? Are we dealing with an AWS killer? No, is the short answer. It\u2019s a very minimalist experience. Like the German provider Hetzner, you can basically only launch a virtual Ubuntu server \u2014 that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nLike Hetzner, they also offer managed object storage (S3). And the only somewhat interesting feature is that you can run some small language models. It all feels a bit unfinished, however it should be noted that they themselves describe it as a beta version. Going forward, they plan to offer databases, block storage, and Kubernetes clusters \u2014 but for now, that\u2019s still in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nInterestingly, they appear to have chosen to base their entire infrastructure on Kubernetes. This means, among other things, that you can use kubectl and YAML to manage your resources. That\u2019s certainly an interesting choice \u2014 let\u2019s hope they don\u2019t drown in complexity and in the massive changes Google is planning for Kubernetes 2.0, including (it seems) the discontinuation of kubectl and YAML.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThere are virtually no how-to guides, no customer references, and on top of that, it\u2019s really<\/em> expensive \u2014 more than 17 times the price of Hetzner. Okay, perhaps it’s not entirely fair to compare with Hetzner, since they\u2019re ridiculously cheap, but still \u2014 a 1700% price difference!<\/p>\n\n\n
- https:\/\/stories.eqtventures.com\/articles\/on-eqt-ventures-investment-in-evroc-the-cloud-to-reimagine-the-digital-future-of-europe<\/a><\/li>\n
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