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

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Workloads are implemented using services. The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. While high infrastructure costs do create a barrier to entry to creating a cloud provider, this misses an important point: the benefits of the cloud come from the cloud model, not any particular cloud implementation.