Moin, not able to speak for the NCC here; But the answers are most likely rather obvious.
- what are cloud provider Rough guess given a (conceivable) multi cloud strategy: AWS and Azure for PaaS/IaaS and Google workspace for 'groupware'.
- what are services will be used from this provider See the activity plan for what is being migrated. Somewhere between 6 and 12 months ago there were some rather vocal voices re: the costs of those rack rows.
- what are data will be stored in cloud and WHERE will be stored physically Now, that's the thing; The thing is called 'cloud' cause you no longer know exactly _where_ it is. Out of simple operational reasons (read: latency) I would bet on 'Europe', though; And i am relatively certain that the NCC put some GDPR related constraints in place as well.
- how RIPE NCC select this cloud provider? (because from 3rd party its looks like a some corruption things...) Given the size of the market(tm)+the relatively low budget (see below), I doubt that any cloud provider would resort to corruption here. Beyond that, nobody ever got fired for buying Ci... er AWS. So, I doubt that there was any corruption involved here; Which, btw, is a rather serious accusation you made there.
- why RIPE didnt want to use local cloud? (40M EUR per year is small for these???) Well, because they usually lack all the fancy 'cloud-y stuff'; And you are quickly at the point where you are--essentially--outsourcing self- hosting.
- how much hardware from colocation will be replaced in cloud and what are excatly will be moved to cloud? - how much in finance its will be cost? If my memory does not fail me, there were some rather extensive presentations about this at the last meeting.
With best regards, Tobias