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Which vendor would you rather use in this context, with your sensitive customer data? -vendor A's list of sub-processors is a mile long and includes providers of questionable repute; -vendor B's list is short and includes AWS and GCP

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We have a vendor with almost no subprocessors because they run their own hardware in a colo.

It is refreshing actually. They can accurately answer questions on how everything works and there is no subsubsubprocessors to worry about.

I think he's arguing about OpenAI vendoring specifically, where OpenAI has a lot of subprocessors, but AWS doesn't and there's not really a 3rd camp to choose from, yet. But even there you can't just choose AWS as I tried to illustrate in uncle comment.

Ah my mistake, I thought he was making a broader point that other providers always have deep subprocessor stacks.

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