Was he the CTO as well? That’s who should really be fired (unless Matze hired the CTO in which case sack them both).
Now imagine all of those services say "nah, you're done". All of the sudden you need to roll your own everything. You have millions of users and no access to fractional development of load balancing, crafting emails to avoid spam filter, best practices in 2FA, well organized chat permission systems. It's the true nightmare scenario for a modern company.
If you say "they should have anticipated being de-platformed", well they probably never would have made it as far if they had focused on that.
At least you would have some reputation intact. Now he is just the guy that failed, couldn't recover and will have a hard time going anywhere.
Need slack? Install an irc server (i assume this is for internal use). Need email, install sendmail and thunderbid, need a 2fa provider? TOTP is literally five lines of code.
Yes its all annoying, yes it will be rough around the edges, yes it will slow velocity, but no, missing them will not make your business intractable.
"A Linux system administrator with five years of system deployment and management work experience"
Previous job included hyperscale things like:
"Designed, managed, and maintained a commodity-based hardware platform with twelve supermicro servers"
That's, uh, interesting.
If they were behind Cloudflare or another DDoS protection website, you wouldn't even be able to tell they were an AWS customer at all.
That coupled with their multi-million dollar monthly infrastructure bill and I'm scratching my head. The site seems like it was built by outsourced lowest bidder contractors and they scaled by throwing blank checks at the problem.
This is non-sensical. AWS certainly knew they were a customer, and they were the ones that kicked them off. Plus, Cloudflare has deplatformed other customers before, don't think they would have wanted to touch Parler either.