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How much of the fediverse runs on AWS and how willing do we think besos would be to pull the plug on those?
Doing my part running my instances locally 🫡
Lemmy.ca will be moved on a fat server in Vancouver colo. Currently on cheap hardware in OVH. Not sure about .world. Probably similar. AWS is expensive. So Bezos would have to have Trump annex Canada before he'd be able to put his fingers on us.
.world and a majority of the fediverse uses Hetzner afaik.
EDIT: According to Fedidb Hetzner is the most common ASN (excluding Cloudflare).
They don't control the domain registrar's at least. Yet. (Or at least not de jure)
Don’t they have their own DNS? It’s called Route 53 I think?
Though I don’t think you are required to use it with your AWS hosts. But that’s not exactly what I meant by pulling the plug. They could quite literally pull the plug on your service. (Disconnect you from switches/routers, power off your hosts, etc.)
Oh indeed, don't disagree there, we are as in most respects, at the mercy of our corporate overlords
Not much, probably. For small scale usecase, like a VPS, AWS is horrifically expensive. For a 4GB of ram VPS, AWS is 30 USD a month, whereas you can get that for 10 USD a month, elsewhere.
AWS does this because of vender lock in. For the few times when a consumer of theirs needs a VPS (or some other service cheaper elsewhere, it's less effortt to continue to use AWS than to go someplace else.
But for individuals and small organizations, like the fediverse servers, we can just start out on the cheaper options.