> And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data?
> And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data? Or financial data? Then you're probably going to need some combination of HIPAA / SOC 2 / PCI DSS certification, regardless of where your servers are physically located. AWS has certified the infrastructure side for you, but that doesn't remove your obligations for the logical side. > Are you prepared for appropriate data isolation/sharding and controls? Do you have a strategy for scaling database operations per client or across all clients? Again, you're going to need that regardless of where your servers physically exist. > vs. relying on a new backend instance per client in a cloud infrastructure You want to spin up an EC2 per client, and run an isolated copy of the application, isolated DB, etc. inside of it? That sounds like a nightmare to manage, especially if you want or need HA capabilities.
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Historically we've seen capitalism be a good thing.
> And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data?
They already got many many billions.
It is generally believed that the trip is part of the mechanism for healing Interestingly, you can have trips without psychedelics, like...
Yep, the loudest people get the most help.
The real root issue, is that we drastically underfund rehabilitation.
> And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data?
> And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data? Or financial data? Then you're probably going to need some combination of HIPAA / SOC 2 / PCI DSS certification, regardless of where your servers are physically located. AWS has certified the infrastructure side for you, but that doesn't remove your obligations for the logical side. > Are you prepared for appropriate data isolation/sharding and controls? Do you have a strategy for scaling database operations per client or across all clients? Again, you're going to need that regardless of where your servers physically exist. > vs. relying on a new backend instance per client in a cloud infrastructure You want to spin up an EC2 per client, and run an isolated copy of the application, isolated DB, etc. inside of it? That sounds like a nightmare to manage, especially if you want or need HA capabilities.
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