My wife and I run a small chain of second-hand clothing stores and maintain our own custom point-of-sale system that handles us buying our inventory directly from our customers who sell to us. The database and API run on AWS in the Canadian data center. We have contingencies for total system failure, but it's not a fun way to limp along doing business.
We are concerned we are an executweet away from having those AWS services cut.
Any other Canadian business here migrating away from AWS as a precaution?
by rocketpastsix on 2/2/25, 3:15 PM
I don't think thats on the table right now. Good to have a cut over plan, but I wouldn't stress it right now. It appears the Canadians are aiming their efforts at hurting "red" states, and AWS is based in a "blue" state that tends to fly under the radar.
by nejsjsjsbsb on 2/3/25, 6:27 AM
Can't AWS just restructure to have a Canadian subsidiary if that happens? Maybe they have this already. Unless they ban ownership of foreign companies.
by omnizone on 2/8/25, 2:06 AM
Do you have a dev team that maintains the POS system?
by bondsophia121 on 2/2/25, 3:26 PM
I don't thiks so
by ActorNightly on 2/3/25, 12:21 AM
AWS is highly unlikely to get cut. That was the whole point of Bezos and Zuck meetings with Trump, because they understand that the best course of action is dangling money in front of a manchild as a way to avoid attention.
Of course, nothing is for certain, but my opinion is based on the fact that all the negative rhetoric about Trump tanking the economy is coming from the same places that predicted Kamala win.