The idiot author doesn’t know what he’s saying.
They only used AWS from the front end web servers.
Set up new front ends and off you go.
Were they using AWS in hybrid mode? They have on-prem servers for their backends?
I listened to John Matze in a podcast interview that posted yesterday. As problematic as the AWS actions were, the action that Twilio took was perhaps even more damaging. Parler differentiated itself from Twitter in that it required accounts to have an active SMS number associated with it. This limited fake accounts or bots to run multiple accounts that Twitter suffers from. Twilio was the service Parler used to authenticate users with their given SMS number. Matze said they’d probably have to build this functionality themselves instead of using an outside service such as Twilio as so many do.
This entire fiasco has been a black mark on the public cloud computing industry. This industry sold itself to the market as the most efficient path to build technology platforms so that you don’t have to do it all yourself. I guess it came with the caveat that this is only true if the public cloud companies agree with your business model or your political positions on issues.
Fine, they are private companies and they can make their own policies within the boundaries of the law. But there are many First Amendment issues at play here and that takes this disagreement to a whole new level. Expect a lot more to happen here.
Q: What hosting service does Free Republic use? Is it run on private data centers or public cloud? I can easily see this platform being a target soon, if not already. Jim is already on their radar, we know.