[ris]

I don't think you have any idea just how much it costs to run infrastructure at the reliability levels provided by AWS, and just how much investment it would require to get the ball rolling on this.

A lot of people have a very unrealistic picture of what government budgets are like.

[bboygravity]

I get that it costs a lot.

My point is that NOT hosting it yourself (as a government) costs WAY more in the long run. See my points above.

The same goes for companies in Europe who literally host their trade-secrets (designs, sales, the entire company) on US-servers (OneDrive, Google Drive, etc). The US is the home of their competitors. Who cares about infrastructure costs if you're PAYING to give your trade secrets away to your competitor(s)?!

[blibble]

> I don't think you have any idea just how much it costs to run infrastructure at the reliability levels provided by AWS

my $12/year VPS does better than us-east-1

[hdlothia]

Where do you get a 12 dollar a year vps. Hetzner charges me 4 bucks a month and it feels like a steal

[blibble]

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