Amazon is kicking Parler off its web hosting service
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the latest blow to social app Parler, Amazon said Saturday it was suspending the company from its web hosting platform effective at 11:59PM PST Sunday. First reported by BuzzFeed News unless Parler finds another web hosting service, the site will go offline Sunday night.
Parler CEO John Matze said in a post on the site Saturday evening that the site could be offline for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch." Matze said the company had prepared for such an event, by never relying on amazons [sic] proprietary infrastructure and building bare metal products."
He added that many" were competing for Parler's business, and accused Amazon, Google, and Apple of a coordinated attack to kill competition. We were too successful too fast,...