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No I'm not saying either way if I support or don't support this decision all I'm saying is all …

… No I'm not saying either way if I support or don't support this decision all I'm saying is all these things would go into consideration into a decision like this from just a pure engineering level. I've sadly had some projects that I worked on in the past were they looked at it and they didn't want to do archival because there was just not worth the legal risk to deal with changing laws like gdpr so they just shut the feature down. This is often the calculus that happens how much revenue is it making what is the legal liability risk of keeping it up what is the ongoing engineering cost to maintain it or spin up an engineer and fix it in between. Given that 300K price and just assuming you got to do one year of fixes over the next 10 years that site better be bringing in multiples of $300,000 a year in revenue to even make it worth it to not just shut it off. Esp if you can't quantify community good will. …

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I still can’t believe this even happened. They could have archived a static version of the site and served it from AWS and put a banner on top of the site saying it is hosted on AWS. I guarantee you they would have recouped the costs of keeping the site alive in no time. What a stupid decision.

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> What's the engineering cost to move the dynamic site over to a static site and fix any issues there within when you have no engineers working on staff anyway. What's the ongoing price of dealing with things like legal threats take down notices etc. Especially when you have no engineer and no good way to just go remove individual pages or deal with those types of issues. What's the engineering cost to go deal with changing regulations like gdpr and right to be forgotten we need to go remove comments or other user posted information from someone. archive.org seem to manage it on donations alone, for millions of websites. So presumably it can be done very cheaply, if you have a lean organisation. It's possible that Amazon is not that lean organisation, of course.

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Only let the GET and HEAD requests through, probably. I'd say about a day fiddling with the load balancer, at most.

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