City drops Amazon from suppliers list
The city has dropped Amazon from its list of suppliers.
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dhomas 22:13 on 2025-02-09 Permalink
I’d be interested to see how far reaching this is. Is this Amazon, the supplier of physical goods (owns, paper, electronics, etc.) from Amazon.ca? Or Amazon the cloud provider where you would get things like AWS? I truly hope it’s both. We also have a really good local option in Keepsec (https://www.keepsec.ca/). They’re based right here in Montreal. I’d love to see the city be their customer and even invest in bolstering their service offerings. They’re a young company, but already offer a lot of what the big players do.
Kate 19:45 on 2025-02-10 Permalink
I’ve set up a few simple websites for people over the years, and directed a periodic backup at AWS mostly so that if they screwed something up and came back to me in a panic, I could pull a rabbit out of a hat for them. My monthly AWS bill is around 12 cents. I hesitate to mess with this, but ethically, I suppose I probably should…