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by zackbloom 3023 days ago
Isn't the entire idea of the cloud a massive correlated risk? If AWS is hacked, it would be very bad. That said, experience has seemed to show that people who build infrastructure tend to make less mistakes in that way than the millions of people who are building businesses and personal sites would. I agree that in a perfect world security would be easy to get right and federated, but it seems like it you have to pick one 'right' is the best choice for now.

Do you use any cloud providers?

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Yes, TLS termination is something that people get wrong, but there are other ways of decreasing that risk than to hand off the task entirely to someone else.

And yes, if AWS were compromised, that would suck. But right now a lot of CloudFlare sites are backed by AWS. So now their traffic is at risk in two places, not just one.

I don't tend to use cloud providers, no. I self-host some stuff out of my house, with reliance on DNS and CAs being the major points of "correlated risk". I use S3 for serving some public files.