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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)
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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'd be curious, they use Minio which puts S3 first. Does it mean Docs (the official instance) is relying on AWS?

If so IMHO that's not a great default EU sovereignty.

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I would assume (without having looked at the codebase) that if they use minio they are, by default, not reliant on AWS.

Minio is its own S3 implementation which can be self-hosted.

S3, being an AWS protocol originally has AWS environment variables all over the place but that does not necessarily mean a reliance on the service. Rather, they rely on the protocol and you bring your own S3 endpoint I would assume. be that minio, hetzner or what have you.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense, closing the issue then.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

FWIW if others are curious https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/issues/755 opened an issue

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought that MinIO is a Open-Source S3 implementation, which you can just install on your own system. S3 is a "protocol" here IIUC.

Is your complaint that they are using the S3 protocol, because it was invented and is controlled by AWS?

Or that some services might use it without MinIO, directly on AWS?

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Seems I misunderstood, if it's solely the branding (of that implementation) then it's fine. I thought they relied on AWS itself.