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I formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was requi
by xkjkls 5y ago
I formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was required for every single deployment.
- arcanus 5y agoDid this give you incredible leverage for performance reviews, raises, etc?
- xkjkls 5y agonone at all; this task was just literally a "hit the button".
- austincheney 5y agoI can only imagine turning off the lights and sending people home in those moments where you have a late night family emergency.
- xkjkls 5y agopretty much all of the times I was needed were scheduled, so there was rarely surprises.
- whoknew1122 5y agoYup. Not only do you have to be a US Citizen, but you also have to be on US soil. So if you're on vacation internationally? Can't make that change. AWS takes that stuff very seriously.
- atatatat 5y agoCan you tell me what country I have to be in to cancel my services and stop being billed?
- shalmanese 5y agoIran
- bunfunton 5y agoSuuuuure. Whoops and there goes a vpn tunnel with a residential endpoint.
- prpl 5y agoThat’s not particularly surprising. I spent a lot of time on an army base in mid aughts as an undergrad for a similar reason, decommissioning an astrophysics project.