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.
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ahahah, good meme!
That’s what happens when you don’t read the terms and conditions or the fine print. But I think there should be some kind of exception clause for cases like this.
You mean a better termination clause? I.e. 3 month notice for premature termination and maybe a fine? It would be good to be able to negotiate that, yes. Competent contract managers will often point this out in their review before you sign and explicitly warn of risks. It doesn't take too special an executive to file such warnings under "risks unlikely to materialize" and move on with the contract.
Feels to me the activist is angry at the wrong party here.
Yeah, some way to reduce the cost. But like you said, that kind of clause should be in the contract. I went through something similar with a telecom contract for a place I had to move out of. I still had to pay the remaining 4 months.
Agree that for consumer contracts this can be pretty nasty and feel predatory. I don't have this problem with my non-KYC prepaid providers though. So I do think that there is a solution.
Back then that wasn’t a thing, but now telecom providers in Portugal are required to offer plans with no contract lock-in, although those plans are more expensive.
It'll always be more expensive to not be locked in, to not have your data recorded or stolen, to not be a slave.