That is the way until everyone gets put on an Alphabet Agency’s watchlist.
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I have this debate DAILY with my mother who works in Boeing IT, blissfully in denial about how many third-party platforms the systems that keep the company running and planes airworthy depend on and how all it takes is ONE GUY at AWS or Google to decide he has a serious case of the Butthurt Bitchness and throw the killswitch because "we're a ludicrously huge defense/gov contractor and they wouldn't DARE."
Yeah, that's what everybody said about the union [edit: my bad, it was the flaming commies at IAM, not ALPA] when they decided they hated Frank Borman so much they were gonna burn all of Eastern Airlines to the ground to stick it to him...
It was a legit concern when we migrated from a physical data center to AWS a number of years ago. Purely from a risk standpoint it is now your Achilles heel. Not only that but bet your a$$ if you have a good business model at some point AWS will launch a competing service. That and controlling costs. We had to hire a third party to constantly manage and tweak our "set up" or the monthly bill just grows unchecked. I do miss the days, sometimes, of having two data centers.
I just assume that everyone on this board except the plants, trolls and Ray Eppses are scheduled for a visit from our own personal Mommy-Murderin' Lonnie at the stroke of midnight on Kinetic Day, you guys for what you know/have one/can do and the rest of us like me just by association "to make sure"--including your kids, dogs and even the squirrel in my front yard.
Speaking of getting off vBulletin... What's the new software? I have a buddy who has two wargaming forums running on vBulletin that he's keeping held together with duct tape, bubblegum and baling wire (and having several just SCARY outages with data loss a year) and I'm trying to see if I can find him a viable option on a shoestring budget so we don't lose the technical-research legacies of any more of our fallen members.
Please keep the Tapatalk plugin in the new forum software. All the other forums have dropped Tapatalk and I've quit posting or reading them.