Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers

Offbeat Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign Carly Page Carly Page Published mon 25 May 2026 // 10:38 UTC 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. REG AD MORE CONTEXT AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech 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. He also points to managed Kubernetes pricing he says can exceed €14,000 ($16,251) a year. REG AD Complaints about hyperscaler pricing usually stay confined to conversations between infrastructure teams, the occasional furious LinkedIn post, regulators and Reg readers.  Raiti took a slightly different approach, pr