On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 18:20, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * I find it ethically wrong to use AWS, even if you can't host it in WMF > for legal reasons, why not another cloud provider. Which cloud provider would you recommend? Popular alternatives to AWS include GCP (by Google, who unscrupulously harvest user data and sell it for profit) and Azure (by Microsoft who arguably owe their position in the market due to numerous anti-competitive practices for which they have fought, and lost, numerous lawsuits). In addition to that, there are numerous other factors to consider, such as cost (we should be responsible with donor money), and environmental impact of the hosting choice in question. My point is, there is no objectively correct ethical choice. There's also numerous other factors to take into account in addition to ethics. There are different feature sets that each cloud provider offers; as an example, I recently did a competitive analysis of different cloud-hosted container registry providers, and was surprised at the large number of feature differences in each provider, even for something as relatively straightforward as a container registry, even between ECR and GKE. Engineering productivity is an important factor too. From a project management perspective, it seems to me that the most prudent thing to do is to choose a solution for prototyping rather than spending an excessive amount of time analysing it. After all, time is money. I would be concerned by the choice of AWS if this were in any way a permanent choice, but the docs specifically mention that AWS is being used for ease of prototyping, and that the long-term solution is presently undetermined. Dan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
