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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How do I leave AWS?

I use S3, EC2, SNS (or whatever they call it now), email, cloudfront

I want the same fast servers and CDN. I can probably pay someone else for email and sms services

[–] CharlesDarwin 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure if DigitalOcean stacks up in similar ways or not. Also not sure what their politics are.

I'd be curious about options as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What did you opt for? On-prem? Colocation? Some other vendor?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I moved to DigitalOcean for now, I thought about selfhosting but I'm not in a great situation for that. They are cheaper, easier, and I've been mooching off of their tutorials for a decade. I had to dump a 27GB site that I haven't touched in at least 10 years and am undecided between a phone notification app or SMS to replace SNS. DO has S3 storage and a CDN. The last bit is just one site that needs some email forwarding but it's very low priority. $7 droplet and $5 S3 and no one looks at these sites but me so the bandwidth won't cost me anything most of the time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You learn how to hack multiple other services together, and you coordinate with multiple third parties + their different applications. There are no other feature complete competitors. The S in AWS is what defined it. The AW part doesn't matter; anyone can do that with enough cash, effort, and skill. Welcome to the global monopoly, thank you for your support by using AWS.