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[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

How much of the fediverse runs on AWS and how willing do we think besos would be to pull the plug on those?

[โ€“] kat@orbi.camp 6 points 3 weeks ago

Doing my part running my instances locally ๐Ÿซก

[โ€“] moonpiedumplings 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not much, probably. For small scale usecase, like a VPS, AWS is horrifically expensive. For a 4GB of ram VPS, AWS is 30 USD a month, whereas you can get that for 10 USD a month, elsewhere.

AWS does this because of vender lock in. For the few times when a consumer of theirs needs a VPS (or some other service cheaper elsewhere, it's less effortt to continue to use AWS than to go someplace else.

But for individuals and small organizations, like the fediverse servers, we can just start out on the cheaper options.

[โ€“] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.ca will be moved on a fat server in Vancouver colo. Currently on cheap hardware in OVH. Not sure about .world. Probably similar. AWS is expensive. So Bezos would have to have Trump annex Canada before he'd be able to put his fingers on us.

[โ€“] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

.world and a majority of the fediverse uses Hetzner afaik.

EDIT: According to Fedidb Hetzner is the most common ASN (excluding Cloudflare).