There has been an organized amazon boycott underway for the last week. It started on the 7th of March and ends today on the 14th. I have been as successful as I can be in joining the boycott. I haven’t shopped at amazon or knowingly shopped at a site that amazon owns. I haven’t watched anything on amazon prime video. I haven’t knowingly used the news services they own, or even used imdb. The most difficult part was not using audible while driving in and out of Boston and to and from work this week. I am a bit of an audiobook junkie when I am driving and not touching my audible account was a little tough.
The question I have is, did I unknowingly use amazon web services? I think a huge chunk of the internet is hosted by amazon. There’s a good chance that I went somewhere that is paying money to amazon for their web hosting needs. I don’t think I could have avoided that at all. Hell, for all I know this very page is hosted by amazon. I hope not, but who knows?
For the things that I could actually control though, I have managed to play along. I just have to continue not giving amazon any business until midnight tonight. I can do it.
In the meantime, here’s a photo a day picture of a cat. Hopefully Flickr, the site I use to host the images you see on this goofy little page, is not hosted by the amazons. That would be disappointing.
Inside the Red Head's Head 
Can I break some bad news to you? A good chunk of the internet is operated by AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud infrastructure. Which WordPress and many of its tools for scalability, security, and reliability is all made possible by AWS, as well as Flickr which is completely hosted and operated off of AWS
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Also to mention all your major streaming services, like Netflix all hosted by AWS. Kind of hard to avoid unless you completely stay off the internet.
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I know I didn’t come right out and say it, but I thought the implication was pretty clear that we can’t really avoid AWS and still use the internet.
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You’re right… avoiding AWS is virtually impossible.
I need delivery of heavy stuff so I didn’t boycott, but I already drastically reduced shopping there.
Are you participating in the Target boycott? I haven’t shopped there in ages, but that’s also because of needing delivery (they didn’t have it when I switched).
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I dropped my Audible subscription and use my free public library account for audiobooks! It’s a wonderful service that I highly recommend.
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