> if we had any good ones in Europe

TBF (and the subject of government tech and procurement aside) there are good ones in Europe.

The problem tends to be how much of the US-cloud cool-aid your organisation has drunk.

If you've drunk the whole bottle, i.e. the random alphabet-soup of interdependent microservices, then sure you'll have a tough time finding a like-for-like equivalent.

But if you've still got old-school IT brains in your IT team, then its perfectly feasible to find equivalence in Europe.

Not only that, but you'll probably pay at least 10x less in Europe because you're not paying through the nose for the alphabet-soup of random interdependency.

Also the EU providers price sheets are clear and it is easy to reliably forecast how much you will be paying. As opposed to the US provider's muddy price sheets full of small-print and all sorts of random invented proprietary billing units that are nigh on impossible to reason about.