I see that AWS is shutting down parler.com at midnight tonight. parler says they'll be back up in a week. Maybe we should start a pool. Anyone here converted from AWS to another cloud?
(People in the know have suggested that Trump will relocate to grindr. :-) ).
I also noticed that parler does not have a content network in its front end. They will be susceptible to DDOS attacks if they do come back. Not that I would ever advocate such a thing.
Cloud engineer here (certified for both AWS and Azure). Quarterly issue of our main customer wanting to switch from AWS to <competitor>.
Have to tell that it can be done while providing the SWAG for time, effort, and cost. Because retooling your code and infrastructure from AWS to the competitor's will also need to account that the personnel will also have to learn and get trained. And if you're currrently using a service on AWS that isn't present in the competitor, now you might have to re-architecture. We ended writing a white paper and creating a slide deck so that every time someone in the customer leadership decided to be a Good Idea Fairy (GIF) because they heard a buzzword, we'd send them the documents, while resisting to say "For the umpteenth time.."
We never tell the customer "No"; we like to present 2-3 options that they can pick.
Would be surprised to see which CDN would allow Parler. And on that bare metal comment their CEO made... yeah, right. I have an old dual hex-core HP ProLiant that I can sell them, with 8 146GB SAS drives. Can come pre-installed with MS Hyper-V or VMware, as a freebie offer. Best part, it generates a ton of white noise that can help drown out all that "Librul Noiz".