With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to repost this old strip
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@designthinkingcomic the thing is that it is not even cost-saving. It's excessive costs. For what? Simplicity? Not really. More like obscurity.
https://medium.com/@accounts_73078/goodbye-aws-how-we-kept-iso-27001-slashed-costs-by-90-914ccb4b89fc
@mapto as an independent ISP we have been banging this drum relentlessly since “cloud” became a thing. I don’t even really care if people don’t host with us - we don’t have 27001 yet - just fgs don’t pay way more for way less elsewhere just because it’s “easy”
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Said on June 21st, 2025:
"Was tying our company’s future to a single US-based provider a responsible choice?"
The follow up question is, why aren't all other European companies asking this question.