[ncc-services-wg] New on RIPE Labs: RIPE NCC and the Cloud - Let’s Start Again

>> i do not see how one really gets to this place [...] if one buys
>> services above metal as a service (aka MASS).
> 
> "Shim the APIs", e.g. Terraform or similar, and use lowest common
> denominator in terms of refined higher-level services.

and what shim do we use on OVH et alia?

>> a side benefit of buying MAAS, is that this brings in emea vendors,
>> not just aws, azure, or goog.
> There are more cloud APIs than those three in EMEA.

two things

  o those three are not based in emea.  see others' postings on gdpr
    and other issues with american providers

  o there seem to be extremely few emea based providers above MAAS;
    which was my point

randy