> but what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with? Parler had people discussing murdering Congresspeople and didn't do anything about it. No matter which faction of "what level of free speech is acceptable" one subscribes, this is never acceptable and it is no wonder that Parler got booted off.
"Parler had people discussing murdering Congresspeople " By that criterion we should immediately close down Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, ...
"Parler had people discussing murdering Congresspeople " By that criterion we should immediately close down Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, ...
You missed one key difference, moderation, Parler straight up refused to remove these kinds of posts.
Parler just got ejected from the internet. Is it totally unthinkable that they would have adjusted their behaviour and moderated whatever Amazon had told them to if given, say, 2 weeks notice? They probably would have, then transitioned off AWS in an orderly fashion.
I mean, AWS basically took their business under false pretences. AWS wasn't trying to provide them a service, it was trying to kill their company.
You missed one key difference, moderation, Parler straight up refused to remove these kinds of posts.
Parler just got ejected from the internet. Is it totally unthinkable that they would have adjusted their behaviour and moderated whatever Amazon had told them to if given, say, 2 weeks notice? They probably would have, then transitioned off AWS in an orderly fashion. I mean, AWS basically took their business under false pretences. AWS wasn't trying to provide them a service, it was trying to kill their company.
Parler knew the terms when they signed the contract and didn't bother to adhere to them. They had months of notice. AWS did wait until Parler became completely toxic to enforce the terms, but they had lots of cause available.
Is there still no easy straightforward way in $current_year to put an absolute spend cap of say USD 0, USD 5, or USD 10 per month on Amazon.com web services or Google Cloud Platform? I’d think I’d like to prepay a fixed dollar amount like USD 200 IF I anticipate some major event but really this is problematic for students. I just want to use the free tier. Why is this so hard?
You're not a customer they want.
I might be the future customer they would want, if I were able to learn with no risk of costly errors what their platform can do and how to operate it.
Someone put together an animated heatmap of Parler photo locations along the Mall throughout the day of 1/6: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/kvx88n/oc_...
Even better, here are the videos along with their locations: https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/index.html
That's hilarious. Some trumpian complaining about furniture in offices while people are homeless on the streets
I might be the future customer they would want, if I were able to learn with no risk of costly errors what their platform can do and how to operate it.
You're probably still not that customer. You're still concerned about your own money, vs spending employers' money.
Sorry for OT but what about a simple small time private AWS user like me who uses it for static hosting my blog and stuff. Does that mean someone could request a lot of files, over and over, to increase my bill? Or is that served by some cache? Let's say for example I host Mastodon media on S3, about 30G of unique data. Could someone use that to increase the cost of my bill? I do of course have a budget alert set but…
AFAIK yes. This is why I never get people that use AWS. DigitalOcean or any other VPS provider for that matter gives you a flat monthly rate so you know there will never be any surprises. Why take the risk?
There are genuine architectural and cost benefits for some type of configurations. But you really need to be an expert (or team of experts) to identify those situations, then architect and configure appropriately. Where it bites people is the "AWS by default" mentality many folks have (after a decade or more of lots of positive press) without understanding what they're using or why they're using it. Many people who make these decisions are shielded from the direct impact of any cost overruns too, to there is less reason to be sensitive to that. Almost any time I've worked with orgs using AWS, any reference to cost is "an engineer is more expensive!". Which is sort of true, but there's also typically no way a company could just accidentally hire 27x more people than they budgeted for in a single day, or that a rival company could force-hire those engineers in to your company without you knowing about it, sticking you with even just a day's cost for 50 engineers, for example.
I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will. Web companies should build on "Linux" only, as their base platform, so they own everything above that. I was a fan of Parler but building on AWS was a huge mistake, and they should have realized they were…
People are already conditioned to need a web browser to view adult content, and if you are an adult content platform, your competitors are also missing from app store as well. This doesn't work out the same for social media. Doubly so because a social media platform benefits from integrations like notifications which are missing from iOS Safari.
That's like saying PC gamers are conditioned to using windows. They're not "conditioned" to anything, people go where the thing they want is.
And if they want it bad enough they'll start going somewhere new. Which is why most of the synthetic recreational drug crowd learned how to use tor and gets their product delivered in a little bubble wrap envelope that says "agricultural chemicals" on it.