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We could simply stop using amazon services and they won't be build anymore.
I haven't given a god damn dime to amazon since 2020, ever since I learned about the piss bottles. I've asked (and assisted) others to do the same. What else do you expect someone to do? Speak for yourself asshole.
Are you familiar with AWS? Amazon Web services. Many, many, websites use them and I don't think there's a way to tell as a user.
Like, you go to a website and their images are hosted on s3 (an aws service) and their database is on RDS (also AWS), and their whole backend application is using eks or ecs or whatever.
That's extremely common. Companies don't run their own hardware anymore very often.
I never understood the popularity of AWS. It's much cheaper using VPSs and even dedicated servers sometimes. I've worked on very cost-sensitive projects where I rolled our own highly-available k8s and postgres clusters on dedicated servers and VPSs and saved the company a shit load of money. Only used the "cloud" to store backups (Backblaze). There's tons of other options other than major "cloud" providers, and they're often much cheaper.