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Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by yardstick on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:33PM (#19822487)
I expect this will only work until the government in question is sufficiently angered that they just outright block the entire AWS infrastructure. Or whoever else supports ESNI.
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Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by Spivak on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:48PM (#19822600)
But the only reason domain fronting works in the first place is because people think that large web hosting providers are too large to block.

If a hypothetical tyrantical government was willing to block all of Amazon S3 this change doesn't affect anything.

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Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by yardstick on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:42AM (#19824691)
If it impacted Amazon’s (or whoever is targeted) bottom line then I would expect they would be open to dropping domain fronting support. But I admit I don’t know this for sure - time will tell.

China has blocked GitHub and Akamai before. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-great-f...

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Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by shawnz on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:50PM (#19822610)
But the alternative, which is to just not force this virtual host change in the first place, similarly might have gotten AWS blocked from those countries anyway
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