Should You Use AWS Now?

Question

Amazon Web Services

There is a startup, we plan to use aws, but now the situation in the world is extremely unstable, and the jumping rate is not encouraging at all.
I don't want one fine day, going to the aws console, to see a message - like "we do not allow traffic from the Russian Federation" and so on.
So the question is - should aws be included in the list of key partners or not? What would you do?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Well, AWS is just a service. What is the meaning of SOA? That you write your code so that it is not hardwired to a service provider. To make it easy to change providers. Break your application into such components that at any time they can be transferred anywhere you want during the day.
We use Ansible for this - a provisioning system. We "tell" her here the server ip, login, keys - raise our application there, (How to raise, you have to write a config, and it takes time, what kind of result) And ansible deploys our application there. Tomorrow, if we don't like Amazon, we buy another vps and specify a different access - and voila - our application is already on a different service provider in half an hour.
Of course, ansible is just a tool - you get the basic idea - the architecture is such that the application does not depend on the provider. If Amazon suits you today, use it.

Answer 2

well, they will not let you move to another place, at first they will send out alarming letters anyway.