Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible

Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS... by o_m on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:51AM (#44337186)

It makes sense if you consider there is a risk you might get kicked out by AWS because the US government force Amazon to close your account. The US is also hinting about going to war against Europe (Greenland), which makes a bad idea to have any connection to the US.

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Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS... by spwa4 on Saturday June 21, 2025 @01:50PM (#44339364)

... and the US just made the EU very unhappy by killing the ICC's Microsoft subscription. Which by the way was hosted on Azure in Europe (meaning local or "sovereign cloud" or whatever they call it provides exactly zero protection against US sanctions).

So no more Microsoft software then?

The EU isn't willing to pay for that. They'll just throw the ICC under the bus, just like they'll throw any EU company that the US sanctions under the bus. That costs less. The EU has a nice name for throwing people under the bus like this: it's called "the peace dividend".

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Re:Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept IS... by hermanzegerman on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:37PM (#44340146)

We've already learned that you blindly hate the EU. But no, Governments in the EU already made great progress moving off Microsoft Infrastructure.

- The French Police uses Linux for many years already - The Tax Authorities in a German State used SUSE for years - The State of Schleswig-Holstein is switching to a complete sovereign desktop, and many more are also deploying OpenDesk https://www.opendesk.eu/de - The French have La Suite Numerique https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en - Many Universities in Germany have also ditched OneDrive for Nextdrive, and the Mail Infrastructure now runs on Open Xchange https://www.open-xchange.com/

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