Wait... Lidl has a cloud service now?
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Yeah, kind of. Lidl and Kaufland is owned by the Schwarz Group. They have been busy replicating the AWS orgin story. Their cloud is called StackIT. I've worked with them. Still some room to grow but a solid foundation. I like that competition is back on
Is it fully custom, or are they using a flavor of OpenStack or similar?
They have their own API but under the hood it's OpenStack.
Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl work as the current CEO of the former led Lidl digital division.
Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves.
But they had the guts to back away. Not everyone does.
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
Schwarz Gruppe includes Schwarz Digits, which include StackIT. 7500 is the number of employees at Digits, which also includes online marketplaces like Kaufland e-commerce, so definitely not all of them work on the sovereign cloud.
Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.
Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.
Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined.
7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.
The things you can find in the middle aisle!
Sure and it's on SALE right now if you have the customer loyalty card!
> Lidl has a cloud service now?
Yes, when you pay you have to print a receipt with QR code, and then have to scan it to log out.
And don't forget to always carry 50 cent roman coin if you want to log in
Decent amount of features but definitely way more expensive than what you can get on Hetzner: https://stackit.com/en/prices/cloud
Its terrible...just go and try to open an account...it broken from the start
You need to download the lidl+ app. great value