Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers
A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign
A French SRE has given Amazon, Google, and Microsoft until September to fix cloud lock-in or face an endless barrage of AI-generated protest songs, satirical poetry, and Finnish polka.
Amine Raiti, an infrastructure architect and SRE currently working at a European Central Bank-regulated financial institution, has launched what may be the least conventional anti-cloud campaign in enterprise IT history: a multilingual pressure operation called “Operation Dindon,” complete with satirical poetry, orchestral music, K-pop, and a fictional turkey trapped in cloud dependency.
His demands are fairly simple: let companies cancel multi-year cloud commitments when business tanks, stop charging eye-watering egress fees to move customer data around, and make it possible to leave proprietary cloud services without detonating the IT budget.
Speaking to The Register, Raiti claims one AWS NAT...
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