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

High Scalability

Would you really trust some committee or government agency to draw this line correctly? Where's the incentive unless you derive a benefit from optimizing the whole stack? A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. There is no structural separation as there is with a train service. Invent the future you want.