On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:43 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?
Hi Mike, While there's certainly an opportunity to get political, there are some obviously apolitical issues worth discussing here as well. First, this would appear to be an illustration of the single-vendor problem. You don't have a credible continuity of operations plan if a termination by a single vendor can take you and keep you offline. It's the single point of failure that otherwise intelligent system architects fail to consider and address. But more than that, cloud providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to facilitate cross-platform construction? Second, Amazon strongly encourages customers to build use of its proprietary services and APIs into the core of the customer's product. That's quite devastating when there's a need to change vendors. Parler's CEO described Amazon's action as requiring them to "rebuild from scratch," so I wonder just how tightly tied to such Amazon APIs they actually are. And if there isn't a lesson there for the rest of us. These two issues, at least, are technical in nature and on topic for this forum. You may choose not to discuss them if they don't interest you, of course. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/