[Pollard]

Parler is unlikely to rebound quickly, if at all. As the Duckbill Group’s Corey Quinn recently explained on Twitter, migrating a large product off AWS can take months of staging and possibly years to execute. Apps that integrate AWS’s wide array of services cannot be easily transposed onto a different hosting environment, Quinn said.

Quote from an article I saw earlier here

[Gene Eric]

With the right team, it can be migrated incrementally but immediately given a welcoming platform like Oracle.

Day 1 - give a voice to a handful of personalities that can spread the news.

In the following days, work out an identity solution initially without posting capabilities. Thereafter, introduce the distributed NoSQL storage for user postings.

AWS in many ways is built upon open source technologies it didn’t create — software that is readily available to everyone such as microservices, load balancing, searching services, relational and non-relation databases, etc.