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[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

I just donโ€™t understand how โ€œyou can host a server in your garageโ€ is even a seriously meant answer to replacing AWS.

Any at scale company could easily run their own servers in their own garages, but they choose to put them in The Cloudโ„ข because it looked cheaper in some management presentation (why bother asking operations, what do they know).