koollman

the other half

Are curses part of the enchantments ? I think I noticed those

people use weird and rare bacteria bottles sold on amazon as tatoo ink

That would be incorrect.

IANAL, but cloud act purpose is to allow the usa government to ask data from USA-based or USA-related services providers, for offsense/crimes.

It does not allow service providers to do anything else with that data.

Not theft indeed, but copy/use of data without consent. How are they worse:

They are now at risk if there is a data leak in the USA. There are higher fines for data leaks in Europe, so they aren't as well protected as before

It is easier to sell crap in markets with no customer protection or safety rules.

It is cheaper to make stuff without regulations or worker rights.

But, well, that's not really the point you want to make, is it ? :)

I do think some exemples of "stuff that can happen to you" are useful (without becoming a support site, of course).

It may help others consider what they should be doing to not let this happen to them or imagine what they could do before it happens to avoid being stuck.

Do read contracts, service terms and SLA/guarantees (and other customer experiences, if available)

You don't have to run it a entire duplicate of your current infrastructure, just plan for it to happen (depending on impact to your business). Then it means you can think about doing it after a few days of downtime, maybe earlier depending on difficulty/impact.

But, yes, you do have to plan to run it elsewhere and consider wether various features may make it harder for you to move on. vendor lock-in is a known business risk

Well, it is about things to prepare before being in this situation, I acknowledged already that it was unhelpful now, since it is too late. It is advice for other business deciders looking at this, or for this one for changes to implement in the future.

Sometimes the plan is "well, this business had a good run, now it is over".

Sometimes it can be as cheap as "well, here's the documentation to run all my stuff elsewhere, starting from my external backups"

Depends on how much money you lose from a failure and how likely the failure is. As an additional point, you may not plan for s3 going down, but even a price hike on egress traffic may put a business in trouble if trying to move without already having external backups. So, as often, you have to do some cost/risk analysis. But having backups not controlled by your main provider is often considered a good idea.

Technical problems, human error, cost changes, various disagreements between provider and customer, can all be made easier if you have a plan B rather than being stuck with a single provider or solution

external/independant backups are a thing. They would be part of a disaster recovery plan (and you should test the restore process and result from time to time, else they might be worthless when you actually need them).

I understand this is not helpful right now, but there are best practices and many ways to plan for this kind of stuff for good reasons. Some things can and will go wrong, and sometimes that may cost your business a lot, which means you have to anticipate (or accept) the possible costs and risks.

It is part of the job

if your business depends on someone else's entirely to work, you have to factor that into your risks and maybe plan for it.

No alternatives, no disaster recovery plan, nothing you could try for more than a week with some other provider ?

sorbs sarved me well for many, many years. RIP :/

would need some benchmark against indexed data

"$40k became 'untraceable' while being reported as lost" /s