Lidl has their own cloud services provider called Stackit.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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Well, both are owned by Schwartz, rather than Stackit being explicitly owned by Lidl. But yeah, nice to have 100% European cloud.
I heard they go down very lidl
Of Aldi people to provide cloud services, I would not have guessed Lidl
They must be a lidl bit of a genius. Although a lot of people are amazod when they find out AWS is Bezos's main source of income
It endorsed our choice to design around on-prem
At the same time, our IT director is pushing to put everything in the cloud now. I already told him that's a terrible idea, but he thinks it will be cheaper.
To be fair, it's all about cost price. I think there is no way it would be cheaper and if that turns out to be true from the cost analysis, that discussion will be dead and buried.
The thing about cloud is that you pay for what you use. That can also be an issue too because if you leave servers you don't use on the weekend or scale a bit more than you wanted, well, you pay for all of that. If it's on-prem, then you've already paid for it. You're not going to need to optimize any of those.
There's the "FinOps" movement where we're spending time trying to optimize cloud costs as much as we can.
There's no right answer to me, completely depends on your company make up and all that.
Scaleway is a good alternative. Itโs not as comprehensive as the other clouds (yet) but it has improved a lot and has good customer service.
For most services, their serverless functions, containers, NATS, RDS stuff is enough. They also provide a hosted grafana (they call it cockpit)
Their IAM needs to get more granular, I found that to be the biggest sore point.
Hard agree on IAM granularity. But breaking up things in projects limits the blast radius somewhat. They'll get there.
Hetzner is nice
Anyone knows if OVH has a "cloud", I mean they probably do but what does aws offer that OVH doesn't, or is it the price?
OVH is more dedicated servers. AWS has more services for cloud computing, databases, AI.