I have one outstanding order that is already out for delivery. Once I get that, I’m closing my amazon account. I’m done. Buy nothing. Vote with your wallet. Edit: account is closed. get bent Bozos.

  • @Shardikprime
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    401 month ago

    Oh yeah, by all means, stop using all Amazon related services, then realize that about 50% of web services for banking, agriculture, logistics, infrastructure, telecommunications, research and development, industry, transportation, healthcare and energy are hosted on AWS

    “Oh but my service is hosted on GCP”

    Yeah and what do you think is the fallback in case of DRP?

    • Victor
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      281 month ago

      I mean we can all do our small part. 🤷‍♂️ Something is better than nothing.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 month ago

        No, they’re totally right and should continue to spend every dollar they earn on Amazon while bemoaning the death of small businesses.

        • Victor
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          11 month ago

          I… don’t understand this. It’s like it’s only 50% sarcasm somehow.

    • @LotrOrc
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      161 month ago

      Yes AWS is the standard for most of the internet, but do you think Amazon won’t notice if a whole bunch of users en masse decide to stop buying things from their warehouses?

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        61 month ago

        I think their store is but a fraction of what they make in AWS, but you have a point.

      • @Shardikprime
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        11 month ago

        Oh the users win DEFINITELY notice when the second order effects of pulling out of current infraestructure without a plan just for dubious ideological reasons start to manifest

        • @LotrOrc
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          11 month ago

          What?

          Did you ever live in a world before Amazon? People still shipped goods and went shopping

          • @Shardikprime
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            11 month ago

            My dude, that is literally the least profitable part of their business and not the one I’m talking about.

    • @dx1
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      They have much more built out offerings, but smaller hosting providers and on-premise are always an option regardless. Obviously not including “Azure”.

        • @Shardikprime
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          11 month ago

          Good then that loads never change, growth never happens, users never drop off your platform, demand is always the same and everything related to users is never dynamic, but static as fuck

          • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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            11 month ago

            Yes. That is exactly what some B2B customers want. You can still grow month to month, and adapt your onprem infrastructure accordingly.

            Obviously this approach is extremely dependent on the underlying use case and business model. Unlikely to be suitable for B2C.