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I would disagree. Sure, you don't own the hardware, but you have total control over Embrasure's functionality within your self-contained instance.

Wikipedia: "Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service using a private web server, instead of using a service outside of someone's own control."

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Yes, correct, AWS Secrets Manager is out of your own control. You don't control it. AWS does. They can change it or even end it as a product any day they like.

and they can also end all their other services on a whim. Are they gonna do it? dont think so, but they could

The point remains though that AWS is not self-hosting.

exactly my point aswell, or atleast that it cannot be limited to AWS

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