Amazon Web Services Shuts Down Parler Over Policy Violations
Amazon Web Services cuts off Parler from its hosting platform for failing to moderate violent content. The sudden removal leaves the social media app scrambling to find a new infrastructure provider.
Amazon Web Services officially cuts off social media platform Parler, citing repeated violations of its terms of service. The tech giant states that Parler fails to adequately moderate violent content and incitement on its platform, which directly breaks Amazon's acceptable use policies.
This sudden suspension effectively pulls the plug on Parler's entire web infrastructure, as the company relies almost entirely on AWS to operate. Without this essential cloud hosting, Parler experiences a massive outage that renders the app completely inaccessible to its millions of users.
The move represents a major escalation in the ongoing crackdown on platforms associated with the recent Capitol riots. Parler executives aggressively denounce the decision as a coordinated attack by big tech, but they face an enormous challenge in finding an alternative hosting provider willing to take on their controversial platform.