My professional interactions with SAP platforms have been limited, but the impression I got is that SAP is expensive, complex and time consuming (albeit with potentially strong benefits for the enterprise if the implementation is done well).

Something like OVH seems like a better fit for mass scale cloud services, but maybe I am wrong.

sap becoming europe’s aws is a fucking monkey’s paw wish if i’ve ever heard one

One of the things Delos can also offer is a fully SAP-managed Microsoft 365 environment, to which Microsoft has no access whatsoever.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-365-launches-an-on-premise-edition-that-wants-to-solve-productivity-issues-for-good

M365 on-prem

Among the key components of Microsoft’s sovereign cloud are a sovereign public cloud, a sovereign private cloud and national partner clouds.

It’s targeted at organizations that need operational autonomy and air-gapped systems.

Microsoft 365 Local only runs on Azure Local – the underpinnings for Microsoft’s private sovereign cloud.

“Microsoft 365 Local provides customers with additional choice by bringing together Microsoft’s productivity server software into an Azure Local environment that can run entirely in a customer’s own datacenter,” the company explained.

https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/infrastructure/134295/sap-cloud-infrastructure-is-european-sovereign-competition-for-aws-microsoft-and-google-cloud/

SAP is in talks with many of these countries, but each country has its own requirements. SAP would like to move away from these requirements and is attempting to get all European countries to adopt a single standard, allowing it to roll out a European government cloud for all European countries.

looks dubious

So the mandate here is “the EU uses Office 365 on Azure, but paying SAP a cut for management and datacenter services”?

I mean, I’m American and, hell, my bar for personally avoiding dependence on Microsoft is higher than that.

I mean, whatever works for them, I guess, but…