Actually my assessment it is spot on. AWS is just a bunch of APIs, you don’t need to be inside a VPC to use them, you can call them from anywhere. If you wanted

Actually my assessment it is spot on. AWS is just a bunch of APIs, you don’t need to be inside a VPC to use them, you can call them from anywhere. If you wanted to hide your usage of AWS you could stick a varnish server in Digital Ocean or any other cloud or colo provider and have it make signed requests to your S3 bucket, or lambda, or a traditional load balancer fronting http servers. People might know or suspect you were using AWS but if they can’t tie you to specific account then it’s hard to get you shut down. It’s always possible that someone could bribe someone at your CDN or colo to lookup origin ips but even then you could plan for that and put your data stores in a separate account so that even if your http server account is shut down, you can spin up another AWS account for the http servers and your back in business. From a technical standpoint I think half the fun of working for Parler would have been evading the left’s efforts to take them down. I don’t know who they hired for technology but they lacked spirit in addition to fundamentals! ;)