Perhaps the time has come to once again review RIPE's cloud strategy: https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/ripe-ncc-cloud-strateg... As recent outage events have shown: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ Hyper-cloud providers have super complex setups with many inter-dependencies, and it is unlikely that any one relevant tier-3 NOC person understands the entire setup.    These outages will continue to happen and perhaps even more often than we expect. In regards to security: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/microsoft-azure-cloud-vulnerabili... https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by... Does RIPE still want to place some of their eggs in this extremely fragile cloud? Regards, Hank