Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[crazy canuck]

But if AWS got turned off, we'd be proper fucked.

... hopefully it won't come to that.

Datacenters are globally distributed. Just nationalize yours.

As I mentioned above, we already have our own cloud service providers, as a regulatory requirement put in place when the US implemented their Homeland security police state years ago.

[Jacob]

... so we'll be okay? We're not vulnerable to AWS being "turned off" as a part of a hypothetical economic attack by the US?

[crazy canuck]

... so we'll be okay? We're not vulnerable to AWS being "turned off" as a part of a hypothetical economic attack by the US?

As I mentioned above, if there are any Canadians using American Cloud services for anything important, they should not be.

[Iormlund]

It might have a short-term impact. It would kill AWS and Azure worldwide, though.

Alas, you can never say something is too stupid for Trump.