Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar...
by koheripbal on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:49AM
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> BaFin stipulated that the tech stacks could be audited
It's hard to imagine that this includes the code within a Cloud provider. If you're using a Windows server, are they expecting Microsoft to fork over MS source code?
This just sounds like an overly-conservative interpretation of the rules.
It basically rules out ANY cloud solutions - which is unreasonable and wouldn't ever hold up under scrutiny even if the Bank or regulators explicitly asked for it.
Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar...
by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:21AM
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While AWS is a different operational unit than the shopping one, it is known that they didn't play fair with some vendors. In the end, they cloned some, and ruined some.
So the vulture culture exists in parts.
Perhaps Amazon did this on an abstract level to understand video streaming and the Netflix business to create Amazon Video but I doubt Amazon would have cared for the tiny startup I worked at here in Hamburg.
But the hysteria and the “but what if?” thinking is real and it was really codified in bank contracts. So much so that BaFin stipulated that the tech stacks could be audited and there was no way that Amazon was going to allow anyone in to look at it and such.
On the whole if it can be afforded my team is so much more productive being able to build on AWS than to spend all that time both building our product and the infrastructure to go with it. I’m just not that smart.