They knew this was coming and did nothing about it.

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Companies like Amazon are getting hammered by record server usage with another covid-19 holiday shopping season and AWS, and they don't have issues like this. I think this all boils down to SE wanting to control all aspects of their service when they're clearly not equipped to deal with some aspects of it. Their server software probably can't be adapted to existing cloud platforms, but they're a big enough company with enough dollars to lease server farms and use their own software on them.

Please, continue suggesting that they rely on Amazon, a direct competitor thanks to New World to provide their servers. Please tell me how that won't result in a company so notoriously unethical as Amazon screwing them over.