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A comment on Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public. Parent comment

Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by mgfist on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:28PM (#29089530)
> You're taking proprietary code and running it on a competitors platform?

Do you not realize how dumb this sounds? Companies run critical code/infrastructure on AWS to the tune of many billions of dollars a year.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by stvvvv on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:00AM (#29116909)
Google Proprietary code on AWS:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/aws/concepts/a...

etc.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by bamboozled on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:01AM (#29093050)
They do, but you generally also need to do so following some best practices and guidelines.If everyone in every company just put stuff on whatever provider they liked, then there would be a lot of issues.

I mean, do you have any idea how many people have exposed confidential data by hosting it on a publicly accessible s3 bucket?

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