The Next Cloud Revolution: Why Kubernetes Operators Change Everything

The hyperscalers won with developer convenience, not better infrastructure—and European cloud companies failed trying to copy them. But Kubernetes operators change the game: operational knowledge encoded as portable software that runs on any provider. Cloud spend follows the same trajectory, but the distribution shifts. Commodities get priced as commodities (where European providers compete fine), and the service layer flows to software development instead of proprietary lock-in. Europe doesn't need its own AWS. We need the ecosystem that makes AWS optional.