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I’d add that for production deployments, AWS has developed a new instance family that enables OpenSearch data to be stored on S3 [1], bringing significant cost savings.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/latest/develo...

Comment · 1 year ago

For what it’s worth, I recently travelled to the US from the Middle East (into Houston) and was also concerned about this.

My solution was to delete apps I didn’t want to be searched (e.g. WhatsApp) after having made a cloud backup, then enabling airplane mode.

CBP’s website [1] states:

> Prior to beginning a basic or advanced search, CBP Officers will ensure all data and network connections are disabled

And no, I wasn’t searched (thankfully!)

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-searc...

Comment · 1 year ago

depending on the length of these texts — and your technical ability — you might want to check out AWS Textract

it would be easy to set up a pipeline like:

> drop pdf in s3 bucket > eventbridge triggers step function > sfn calls textract > output saved to s3 & emailed to you

Comment · 2 years ago

From my limited interactions with document-intensive sectors (i.e. legal), I think they’re sorely lacking something like this.

When the same document is edited by two separate individuals and diverges, it is a nightmare to reconcile the two.

I truly wish (i.) Microsoft Word was a nicer format for VCS, or (ii.) Markdown was more suitable for “formal” legal texts and specifications — probably in that order (!)