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Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers
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A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign.
Key facts
- Speaking to The Register, Raiti claims one AWS NAT Gateway setup costs roughly €6,700 ($7,777) annually for functionality that Linux admins have been handling with iptables since the late 1990s
- According to Raiti, Operation Dindon now includes 50 AI-generated songs spanning opera, gospel, K-pop, sea shanties, Finnish polka, Raï, and Chopin nocturnes, all allegedly produced in around two
- Episodes include The Managed Mirage, The Highway to Hell (The AWS NAT Gateway Autopsy), and The Turkey Who Plucked Himself in the Cloud, proving that cloud resentment has finally evolved
- Earlier this month, Raiti published what he calls an “Iron Ultimatum” in 11 languages directed at the three hyperscalers
Summary
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. AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud.