[cuban leaf]

Amazon holds all of the data.

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This confuses me. Why does Amazon have their data? They are an online shopping and media provider.

[AppyPappy]

Amazon is also a server provider

[janetjanet998]

it is very expensive to have your own servers most websites can’t afford it

so years ago amazon bought many and lets people rent them and has huge market share

[TexasGunLover]

They are an online shopping and media provider.

Actually that makes virtually no money for them. AWS is what makes all the money and they along with Google and Microsoft are the largest cloud providers.

[Zathras]

What no one will tell you, there are factions in Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Intel who are now working with the NSA.
They can get just about any info they want.
I know this as I was in a meeting at Intel back in 2013 where an executive said this in a meeting.
It was quickly hushed up.

[BuffaloJack]

“... This confuses me. Why does Amazon have their data? ...”

Amazon has probably the largest and fastest server farms in the universe.

Everyone uses Amazon for storage. It’s cost just effective.

[Dead Corpse]

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is also a cloud host for virtual servers and services.

They suck at it too, but a lot of high profile companies are using them.

[Robert DeLong]

Because they used Amazon's cloud services, which means the storage of their data is stored on Amazon servers, thus the data is not in the physical possession of Parler. If they had their own servers Amazon could not have touched Parler. Yes, MS, & Google stopped providing their apps which hurt them, but Amazon is the one that effectively put them out of business. When they cut them off of their services, Parler no loner was able to retrieve their data. It's still in the possession of Amazon.

Amazon drops Parler from its web hosting service, citing violent posts

[ConservativeMind]

That person was assuming AWS held the back-end servers.

It doesn’t.

[Dr. Ursus]

Ask theCIA what they are.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This confuses me. Why does Amazon have their data? They are an online shopping and media provider.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud-based servers and numerous software services which other companies use to build their own services on, such as Parler's social media service. Among the various AWS services available to customers is S3, which is data storage. Amazon's license specifies that they will make no use of customer data, and EU GDPR laws strictly prohibit access of customer data - Amazon could get in a huge amount of trouble accessing customer data.

[pepsi_junkie]

Cloud applications use software called web services to make up most of their code. these are pre-packaged software modules that you can use to rapidly build code and they are all tightly integrated to use over the web. For example creating backups of data can be complicated but if you have a web service you can just use that and not write the code from scratch.

Amazon released a set of such web services that they refer to as Amazon Web Services or AWS and made them available for free over the cloud (i.e. they run on Amazon's servers over the net). A lot of businesses decided to use them. That means that your code is easier to write and has all sorts of benefits of living on Amazon's servers so you don't have to maintain a large IT infrastructure in your own business.

But now it turns out that (1) Amazon controls your data and (2) they can and will shut your business down if they feel like it. and (3) And if they do that they still have your data but now you don't. Expect many businesses to reconsider their use of AWS moving forward.