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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why do we place so much reliance on one mega company? This level of importance.

Because it's cheaper and (in broad terms) more reliable than everybody having a data centre.

It should be seized by the government.

Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong if the US government owned Amazon!

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@Alaknar @jali67 It is absolutely not cheaper. Monopolists have a tendency to raise prices once they corner the market. I took over maintenance of a journalism site and cut hosting costs roughly in half while increasing performance by switching from AWS to DigitalOcean.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

So, you changed one cloud provider to another...

But let me rephrase: cloud can be significantly cheaper - if you know what you're doing and what you're putting on the cloud.

I've been to data centres that cost as much as a decade of cloud hosting the service they were supporting (and that's without operational costs).

Cloud is especially great for small businesses where you have two alternative options: either build your own data centre which you absolutely cannot afford (or risk making it barely operational and unreliable) or host your company at someone else's DC - which is what cloud is, but worse (because nobody can set up so much resiliency and have so many DC techs/admins as Microsoft or Amazon).

There absolutely are situations where self-hosting is preferable, and even cheaper, but wondering "why do we place so much reliance" on cloud service providers just shows that people have no clue what cloud actually offers.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Best alternatives is making Amazon something owned by the people and not any corporation/government but who knows if that would ever happen

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Leta give it to Trump and Elon Musk, they will take good care of it... Lol.

Trump will isolate aws to America only, claiming other countries are ripping him off.

Aws becomes American Web Services.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Put tariffs on everybody who doesn't host US data on their own cloud services.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. :) 100% tariffs on data transfers out of American Web Services...