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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t they have their own DNS? It’s called Route 53 I think?

Though I don’t think you are required to use it with your AWS hosts. But that’s not exactly what I meant by pulling the plug. They could quite literally pull the plug on your service. (Disconnect you from switches/routers, power off your hosts, etc.)

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Oh indeed, don't disagree there, we are as in most respects, at the mercy of our corporate overlords