Comment by jeroenhd
9 days ago
AWS? Linus Tech Tips has run multiple petabyte servers in their server closet just for sponsor money and for the cool of it. No need to outsource your national infrastructure to foreign governments, a moderate (in government terms) investment in a few racks across the country could've replicated everything for maybe half a year's worth of Amazon subscription fees.
But then they will depend on the security people at both sides to agree on the WAN configuration. Easier to let everything burn in a fire and rebuild from scratch.
Exactly, everyone here on hackernews is talking about Azure/AWS/GCP as if it was the only correct way to store data. Americans are too self centered, it's quite crazy.
Yeah the comments here are slightly surreal; the issue was that they didn’t have an off-site backup at all, not that it wasn’t on AWS or whatever.