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Agreed on both counts - absolutely awful article, and self-hosting is not hard. You seemingly need a phd to do the most basic things on AWS

People argue self-hosting is insecure, then open up their AWS RDS instance to the whole world because they can't figure out their IAM settings.

It makes sense that someone who thinks that clouds are magically secure will fail to take the steps to make a cloud configuration secure.