My manager wants me to make this silly AWS certification.
Let me go on a tangent about trains. In Spain before you board a high-speed train you need to go though full security check, like on an airport. In all other EU countries you just show up and board, but in Spain there's the security check. The problem is that even though the security check is an expensive, inefficient theatre, just in case something does blow up, nobody wants to be the politician that removed the security check. There will be no reward for a politician that makes life marginally easier for lots of people, but there will be severe punishment for a politician that is involved in a potential terrorist attack, even if the chance of that happening is ridiculously small.
This is exactly why so many companies love to be balls deep into AWS ecosystem, even if it's expensive.
Nobody gets fired for buying IB^H^H AWS
> In all other EU countries you just show up and board, but in Spain there's the security check
Just for curiosity's sake, did any other EU countries have any recent terrorist attacks involving bombs on trains in the capital, or is Spain so far alone with this experience?
London had the tube bombings, but there is no security scanning there.
AFAIK, there is no security scanning on the metro/"tube" in Spain either, it's on the national train lines.
Edit: Also, after looking it up, it seems like London did add temporary security scanners at some locations in the wake of those bombings, although they weren't permanent.
Russia is the only other European country besides Spain that after train bombings added permanent security scanners. Belgium, France and a bunch of other countries have had train bombings, but none of them added permanent scanners like Spain or Russia did.
Not true, France had this on the train to the Netherlands (Thalys) after some crazy attacked some passengers in that train. They also added electronic gates to most high speed trains in many large stations.
Notice how these inefficient processes create large, compact lines of passengers, which would made the casualties much worse in case of an actual bomb.
Checkout Madrid 2004 terror attacks... So deadly that Spain left Afghanistan and Iraq afik.
That's exactly the event I was alluding to, good detective work :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Thalys_train_attack
How does Spain deal with trains that come in from a neighboring country?
The security check has nothing to do with protecting trains or passengers, so your question is irrelevant.
Thanks for letting me know that my question is irrelevant. Sorry for taking up your time.
You're welcome
French trains come in without any security checks.
AWS doesn’t have to be expensive.
Sure, but you outgrow the free ("trial") resources in a blink, and then it starts being expensive compared to the alternatives.