Thanks for speaking up and throwing cold water on what the racists in this thread are trying to push.

This is a company IT initiative. IT can damn well unlock it. Had a customer with lots of Word and Excel users refusing to switch. The owner told them as of X date, MS tools would be removed, and Libre Office installed. They could train for the transition, or be fired for failing productivity metrics. Strangely, all were able to transition to Libre within the time frame. Their "huge spreadsheet" effort took me all of half a day to move to Postgres and PHP with data retention and history.

Due to a fundamental lack of understanding of what acting like a Christian is.

they're only 1% of global emissions, #16. Doesn't matter what they do. The top 10 are the big fish

> It did happened before, but not on this scale and speed.

Check out Meltwater Pulses 1a and 1b.

you can do that now and find out the u.s. account at the time was nonsense. Go to wikipedia and see.

my dictator can tax the crap out of us with tariffs on imports from your dictator. we sure showed you who the bitch is!

I'm honestly surprised anyone in the military ever allowed this in the first place. Not being able to repair tech in the field is an automatic NO from me.

Seems like an obvious liability.

https://esto.nasa.gov/first-di...

Yes, I know, since I was on the team for storage (Block, File, Object) at a large ISV with data centers around the world.

Again, yes, I'm aware of that. Typically, the data centers I was working with used multiple OC-192's. Telco class MAE routers are not cheap.

I think you meant egress. Which is common because Object Stores are non-atomic. If you want to change an object, your first step is to download what's there (if you didn't keep a local copy), change it, delete what you have in the store, then upload the changed dataset. Because it's non-atomic.
I did a quick squint at S3, looks like nine cents a gig egress up to 100 GiB, and then you go to a lower pricing tier. Ingress is also a change it looks like, for the API for sure, I didn't bother to identify transit as it's an object store.

Actually, the choice was made by a political appointee for policy reasons. Math had nothing to do with the outcome in that case.

Which is why SWIFT has API tiers, to limit the price of runaway programs with bugs, or unexpected traffic. So does S3, and you even have an exposed API to check your call statistics. Not sure with the S3 system has for a refresh cycle, what I worked with were contemporaneous. If I recall correctly, someone sells an API sifter for Amazon billing that will alert you to monitored issues. I'm a firm believer that "no news means you're ignorant, which is never good news."

I am comparing using an internal system versus a service.

The selection of a service over using internal mechanisms is when the service is either too lightly utilized to justify facilities, staffing, and capex,

or

outsourcing those functions is desirable from a operations stand point.

From that standpoint of facilities, staffing, and capex, it is unquestionable that the government fulfilling these will be less expensive in the long run than using a service. That leaves policy as a deciding factor going against it. The policy consideration wasn't articulated.

Wrong, it's 100% on the teen's parents. Blaming internet or some chatbot is being the typical modern snowflake trying to shift blame where it doesn't belong.

I found out and it's boring. Amazon has 60 crashes per million miles, half of USPS rate.

> It used to be my go-to site for all things computer related.

Me too.

They were slightly cheaper than Amazon for the same product, then I did a big project which got slightly downsized and I wound up with $400 in "restocking fees" for a couple of pieces of factory-hologram-tape sealed network gear, after I paid $100 in return shipping.

Learned my lesson real fast.