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[–] TheWinged7@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Atlassian, the company behind jira is also an Australian company, not an American one.

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[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Their HQ seems to be in San Francisco though and they have a US stock symbol. So I guess they pay the majority of taxes in the US, no?

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[+] easily3667@lemmus.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, if I didn't know what you're talking about, that comment on its own would look very hostile. You can't expect everyone to know the same things you do.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago

Perhaps educate people on the Five Eyes, of which Australia is a part of.

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[–] koper@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

And yet their infrastructure is hosted on AWS

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[–] Blaze@feddit.nl [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Has any major tech company moved their infrastructure from AWS? Those things take time.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Unless you use a very limited set of features, you can't really migrate to anything else than another of the big American clouds. And maybe some Chinese ones, though I've never seen what they offer.

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

what do you mean? you can host a server in your garage

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I mean, you very obviously don't know what do these cloud services sell, so why even participate in a discussion you're not qualified to be in at all?

No, you cannot migrate your AWS stack to your garage server.

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm sorry for wasting your time by asking a question while underqualified.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh, you're not wasting my time, I decided to waste it myself. I just don't understand how "you can host a server in your garage" is even a seriously meant answer to replacing AWS.

Like, at my day job I'm responsible for managing an AWS stack that costs the company upwards of $20,000 per month. And we're far from the largest users. You can't store that in a garage.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago

I just don’t understand how “you can host a server in your garage” 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 Cloud™ because it looked cheaper in some management presentation (why bother asking operations, what do they know).

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