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

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The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The market value of the worldwide IT industry is $5 trillion.