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Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers
A French SRE, Amine Raiti, is leading an unconventional anti-cloud campaign called 'Operation Dindon' against Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, demanding reforms on cloud lock-in, pricing, and egress fees. He uses AI-generated protest songs and satirical content, citing high costs like €6,700 for AWS NAT Gateway and €14,000 for managed Kubernetes.
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