Comment by waihtis
1 year ago
What an absolute nightmare. I would also be surprised if iaas providers arent in vehement opposition, i will instantly migrate all cloud resources away from AWS if they start requiring KYC docs. Theres close to zero effort for doing so
Wow, what layer of abstraction do you have that allows for that? Even with typical IaC, Terraform, it's going to be a rewrite. If you're leveraging anything beyond load balancers, compute, and containers I don't see how that approaches zero. Some of the services could end up with you having to build/run your own to get any equivalence.
Why is it so hard time for some of this site to understand that some of us are principled when it comes to choosing technologies? Or you know, actually learned from past trauma and make choice to avoid getting burned in the future.
Not all of us are enlightened. Wouldn't you mind telling us what those technologies are?
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Exactly. At the startup I work for, we built from the old methods of bare metal, and integrate cloud services as needed. At any time though, if we are not satisfied with sed service, we're able to jump ship without headache pretty easily. As simple as spinning up a new container cluster elsewhere, migrating data, and ramping down the old. The founders were very clear on never being entrenched into a singular provider.
Probably because most employees don't get to pick and choose the tech stacks? You're either being incredibly obtuse or I'm missing your point.
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I think this is about preventing sanctioned countries or individuals using US technology we don't want them to have access too (like China not having modern GPUs). That goal seems reasonable though there's always a fear that the law is way broader than the high level intent. Why would it be "an absolute nightmare" if it's so easy to migrate?
That's the stated goal. The actual goal is more likely complete knowledge of any person using IaaS service whether domestic or foreign and what they're up to.
Yeah, mass surveillance.
I meant an absolute nightmare of a bill in general and for the IaaS providers. The US is winning the AI race because of their open ecosystem and capability to execute and these types of things hurt that bad.