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Jesus Amazon is a big enough company they should be doing their own hosting not using AWS.

Yea that’s the point it didn’t make sense. The literal “national aeronautics and space adminiatraton” sent tech and security people to a physical data center to copy a hard drive.

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I’ll add to this that I’m old - these days in a cloud environment they don’t even have to come to the data center to image the hard drive.

I have experience working in large data centers that provide hosting. What I can tell you is that various government agencies do and will randomly come by the data center with warrants and court orders for things. I’ve literally had NASA show up (wtf?) and have to pull a server offline while they mirror the hard disk. All very hush hush make excuses to the customer when they open a ticket. Another thing that happens is that the FBI has placed their servers within internal spaces of the network. When they get a court order they can open a ticket with our abuse department and whatever switch port the feds are interested in can be mirrored and sent to their packet capture servers.

Not the cheapest solution but the best to remotely manage would be some basic ubiquiti stuff. You don’t need the highest end cameras and could get away with only adding the NVR and cheapest POE switch option.