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0 pointsthrance11mo ago0 comments

Few things:

1. I'm not going with Amazon, I live in France so I chose a french cloud provider. Laws are a bit different here.

2. I believe whatever could happen to my data, I'll see it coming and have time to move it all.

3. It's dirt cheap, and doesn't require me to manage my own storage.

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jbc111mo ago· 2 in thread

Is s3 a generic term for cloud storage in France?

thranceOP11mo ago

I don't know. Me and my colleagues call "S3" every storage service that provides an AWS S3 API. I think the official name for the product I buy from my cloud provider (Scaleway) is "Object Storage".

precommunicator11mo ago

S3 is a generic term for a cloud storage everywhere. Idk about proper terms, I always called Google Cloud Storage or Backblaze or any other products using S3 protocol as "S3". It all works the same

justsomehnguy11mo ago· 2 in thread

> I'll see it coming and have time to move it all.

Thanks for the laughs.

thranceOP11mo ago

I know it's fashionable in America to not enjoy any good side of modern life and instead do everything yourself out of sheer paranoia, but this is getting ridiculous.

Also, you would probably gain by (re)reading the guidelines of this website. You could have kept your "laughs" to yourself.

justsomehnguy11mo ago

> fashionable in America

Missed.

> but this is getting ridiculous

Thinking what you would have any time if something goes wrong eg company bankruptcy, accounting error, being locked out or outright deleted because some anti-fraud triggered something - is what is really ridiculous. No amount of fancy, different laws would help if your data gone the way of Dodo.

> you would probably gain by (re)reading the guidelines of this website

Do you understand what this exactly what you should do yourself?

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