this is an infinitely bigger deal than apple or google. Those just mean you have to use the browser as opposed to the app. This means Parler is off the web altogether. Also, depending on their set up, moving off aws may require non trivial rearchitecting of their site. https://twitter.com/buzzfeednews/status/1348089793213837319

2/ For non-techs, Amazon’s AWS system is a highly turnkey set up, very dynamic and extensible. If you’re making use of those features it’s not the kind of thing where you move a word doc to a new computer. If there’s no plan in place I’d figure at least days before back up.

3/ A least the engineers in the thread think my “at least days” is wildly optimistic. I’m no tech. I’ve just worked with techs long enough to know it’s a big task. The other point. Normally you could go to another cloud platform and at least make use of their tools.

4/ But the odds of another industry standard cloud/virtualization service taking them on right now seem close to nil. That leaves a lot of non-corporate smaller scale options. But those means building the sysadmin and architecture from scratch. And that is a massive ...

5/ undertaking.