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How is it stupid?

You de-risk your enterprise significantly by cutting Iran out completely, and you only lose the handful of dollars this would’ve translated into down the road.

Some customers aren’t worth having.

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I'm a Hetzner customer in Australia that have moved away a big part of my workloads which was CI related as most build would start to fail with some access denied error calling various registries. I had a bunch of deep integration through their API as well which had to be reworked because that issue made it a no go anymore.

Banning an entire country and punishing its innocent citizens feels extreme. It doesn't seem right that, for example, an Iranian student can't use cloud services. Ban commercial and government entities, not the individuals.

This is a political argument, not a business one. Now that Uncle Sam has swung the banhammer on a particular country, pity the exec who exposes their company to doing business with the enemy.

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