[latchkey]

> Google Cloud, Azure, deploy a server yourself, etc.

My point is that if AWS decides to follow Hetzner, the rest will too. If it was so easy to just deploy a server yourself, then more people would be doing that already. Right now, AWS is the lowest bar cause that's what half the people running this stuff know already [1].

> If your service is illegal

PoS / staking is a grey zone right now... there is a lot of discussion over the legalities.

> There's a big difference between using AWS as dumb compute and using AWS features.

Correct, but even the dumb compute involves setting up VPC's, networking, disk, monitoring, logging... etc... and each provider does it differently. For one staker, no big deal... but for the larger ones... it gets a lot more complicated.

[1] https://github.com/verida/storage-node#lambda-deployment

[nl]

> PoS / staking is a grey zone right now... there is a lot of discussion over the legalities.

There's really not.

[latchkey]

Yes, there is.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/08/10/whats-at-stake-will...

https://cryptoslate.com/sec-chairman-wants-the-cftc-to-regul...