Self hosting is important

Re:Self hosting is important by ceejayoz on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:40AM (#27940846)

The trust of their customers?

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Re:Self hosting is important by paganel on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:43AM (#27940871)

Afaik the US Government is a big Amazon customer.

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Re:Self hosting is important by ceejayoz on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:45AM (#27940886)

I would imagine that particular customer would rather Amazon not quietly honor, say, a Russian subpoena for their data.

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Re:Self hosting is important by synchrone on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:06AM (#27941046)

does it mean you have to put your data into Yandex or Alibaba Cloud if you wanna avoid USG quietly getting it?

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Re:Self hosting is important by coldtea on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:24PM (#27942220)

The problem for an Amazon hosted server is US subpoenas, not Russian or European or whatever...

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Re:Self hosting is important by ceejayoz on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:30AM (#27948686)

Amazon has AWS regions in six continents.

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Re:Self hosting is important by johnklos on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:38AM (#27941810)

Ha ha ha ha ha...

Amazon? Trust? People trust Amazon to exist and to bill. Providing services to those who pay the bills is almost incidental.

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