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5 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheBTCManual 9 Sep 2023
Is there anything that isn't running on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud at this point? We sure did a bang-up job of centralising the internet, I guess that's what the money and incentives do
I wonder if in the future miners will spin up data centers too it makes sense as a complimentary business doesn't it?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ceife 9 Sep 2023
Try Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 9 Sep 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ceife 9 Sep 2023
Is there any DCS?
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @ryu 9 Sep 2023
Why would you trust Amazon with something like this?
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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 9 Sep 2023
🤷♂️ amazon already runs a good portion of the internet. Seems they’ve proven their worth and reliability.
If the bitcoin protocol is truly the future of the internet then everyone will be offering this eventually.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 9 Sep 2023
I'd like to think that this could be a positive thing; but with everything I've come to understand about their way of doing things makes me very much doubt this.
Amazon, by having 'competitor's shops' within their own shop for a number of years now, has used the telemetry to see how their competitors earn money and have used this data to undercut them. It might be a dollar here or a dollar there - but ultimately they'll have a monopoly.
The point that you make that they're reliable is true - but also that they've reliably misused their power - whether it's the example above, or how they treat their employees.
Just as Elon Musk decided to pull the plug on Starlink services for the Ukraine at a crucial moment when he wanted to - what's to stop AWS doing the same when there's voting for a hard fork?
You can't 'vote' when there's a potential hard fork if you no longer have a node.
Just my two sats.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 9 Sep 2023
Why not? It is reliable and maybe cheaper if you don't want to run your own node for a long time to compensate for hardware costs.
Like lightning nodes, many are in AWS and Google. See here https://mempool.space/lightning
Sadly, it is very hard to change this. Society is very used to trust someone else.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 9 Sep 2023
Maybe more reliable than raspi node but is it more competively priced?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wikparclones 9 Sep 2023
Wow....
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @byzantine 9 Sep 2023
a lot of lightning service providers use AWS including voltage
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