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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

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Where's the incentive unless you derive a benefit from optimizing the whole stack? The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. So, the cloud is not a monopoly.