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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by Closi on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:36PM (#25739766)
It can definitely shut down companies - I used to work at a supermarket that had most of its infra in AWS. If AWS was totally nuked getting systems back up properly would probably have taken months. Even trading would have taken a few days to be fully back.

Even distribution centres operate on the cloud these days.

Cloud migration at any scale isn’t a 24 hour process.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by ncallaway on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:37AM (#25748222)
What you've written doesn't contradict anything that I've said.

> It can only shut down a company from using its services.

> Amazon can't shut down *any* company at the push of a button

If you've chosen to use AWS, then yes, Amazon can shut that down. If your business relies critically on AWS, then yes, Amazon can shut down your business.

But they can't shut down *any* company. There are lots of companies that don't rely on AWS and Amazon can't shut them down.

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