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Amazon can't shut down any company at the push of a button. It can only shut down a company from using its services. There are many other hosting providers in
by ncallaway 6y ago
Amazon can't shut down any company at the push of a button. It can only shut down a company from using its services.
There are many other hosting providers in the world. If Parler hadn't hosted its service on AWS, then Amazon wouldn't be able to shut them down.
- Closi 6y agoIt 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.
- ncallaway 6y agoWhat 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.