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Regardless of what you think about Parler.com, Donald Trump, and Free Speech, there is no denying that Parler.com is down. I don’t know enough about Parler to say anything about whether or not taking it down was the morally right thing to do, but I do know that that Parler is still down, 3 weeks after they were turned off by the guy who is now the CEO of Amazon and hence in control of AWS. But don’t worry, this is not an article trying to defend Parler’s right to exist, it is rather an article trying to defend your right to exist, and more specifically your employer’s right to have a functioning IT infrastructure, resulting in you having a job, being able to support your family. Maybe shutting down Parler really prevented world war 3, and that their employees were all Nazis and fascists for all I know – It’s beside the point, lessons can still be taught by the fact that the site is still down, almost a month after it was shut down.

Parler’s IT infrastructure

I have no knowledge about Parler’s IT infrastructure, but the fact that it’s still down, 3 weeks after it was shut down by Amazon, implies they probably based their entire IT infrastructure on AWS lockin technologies, such as Lambda Functions for instance – Implying porting their code to a different cloud became ipso facto impossible. I work in ForEx, and ForEx is considered a “dubious market” in some corners of this world, and some countries have almost completely banned ForEx. For instance, PayPal does not accept payments to ForEx companies due to the way the ForEx business works, even though it’s a 100% perfectly legitimate business in most parts of the world.

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