What does "due cause" mean? Amazon owns the servers, ultimately, they can shut it down anytime they want for any reason they want. Of course, there are repercussions of doing so for political reasons. Today, I imagine, thousands of IT managers all over the world are discussing their reliance on Big Cloud (not just AWS). I've had this discussion already years ago with management and they told me they were going head first with Big Cloud. Guess what I'm hearing today? "What should we do now?" My answer is to rebuild our on premise data centers immediately. Fuck the costs, we won't have a business if our landlords pull the plug for any reason.
Management assumed hackers were the biggest threat. It never occurred to them the providers themselves would be a much bigger threat.
You are correct, it's their servers, and they can do what they want. That's all there is to it.
I would expect that, while there is talk about reliance on the "big cloud," it will be forgotten soon enough because the sweet lure of cloud services is a drug that's hard for IT managers (at least those ones that are managers first and IT people last) to give up.
Unfortunately, you are correct. This will be forgotten quickly. "It's just Parler". It was only 8chan. It was only ar15.com, it was only piratebay, it was only dailystormer, it was only gab and on and on, but it wasn't my business. They won't deplatform me because I'm a small business. Right. Tell yourself that.
The drug you speak of is convenience, costs, headaches and others. Yea, Big Cloud is attractive and addictive.
it was only piratebay
their .org domain still works
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