AWS and similar are typically not in “far-away disease-and-strife-ridden third-world hellholes you wouldn’t even collect stamps from.”
There mostly in places like Dallas, Utah, Atlanta, etc.
Arrgh! They’re.
>> typically
Interesting, that word.
As competition pushes the cost to the consumer ever-downward — do you suppose your data will *always* reside on cloud servers in Dallas, and never in Bangladesh?
Isn’t the whole beauty of the “cloud” that “it doesn’t matter” where your data reside?
Given a choice between a high-cost provider and a low-cost provider — and terms of service that don’t require them to disclose — do you think your provider will keep your data with the high-cost provider in the country where rule of law more or less holds sway? Or a lower-cost provider in a country governed by whim?
Just thought questions.
To each his own. I run cloud servers for non-critical apps with un-sensitive data placed in cost-effective locations.
My sensitive and personal data? I keep that close to the vest, and maintain best practice control over it to preclude local catastrophes, including not only loss but also uncontrolled disclosure.