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what happens when the FBI or some other agency decides to shut down an aws or gae data center? How many of the toys we play with everyday just stop working. Our
by siculars 18y ago
what happens when the FBI or some other agency decides to shut down an aws or gae data center? How many of the toys we play with everyday just stop working. Our apps migrate to a backup datacenter, right? Maybe. And if they do, that means data is replicating in realtime all over the world. So in that regard it's better to work with the datacenter owners and shut stuff down systematically. Unless the datacenter operator isn't cooperating or is the subject of the investigation. Brave new world of cloud computing we will all be living in to greater degrees in the not so distant future.
- njharman 18y agoNot 100% sure about gae but aws has multiple datacenters and is designed to distribute your S3 data across them so if one goes down your data is still available at others. And you can always store a copy of your data/server images in US/Euro/Japan(some continent your regular data/servers are not) S3 as hot standby to launch when your local government raids datacenters. AWS and probably GAE are in fact good defenses against this type of outage. The real problem is not keeping your servers connected its avoiding being shot by the SWAT team assaulting your house.
- wmf 18y agoOne would hope that when they walked in and saw 100,000 servers, law enforcement would think twice before saying "seize it all!"