DudeImMacGyver

Yes, Netflix had their own infrastucture in addition to other multiple redundant cloud services for their CDNs: You’re kind of proving (part of) my point?

There are still self hosted places today, not everything is cloud based.

Also, there isn’t more competition largely because of Amazon so, while I agree with the sentiment that it could improve things, in practice it’s a moot point.

The problem is far more pervasive than any single incident, allowing a single megacorporation to control most of the Internet is a bad idea for many reasons. The Internet is supposed to be decentralized, it was even designed to withstand a nuclear war with that principal in mind. Even with a robust, distributed network with redundant backups, if it’s still all controlled by one company, that is still a very precarious situation.

If we want a truly robust system, yeah, we kinda do. This sort of event is only one of the issues with allowing a single entity to control pretty much everything.

There are plenty of potential issues from a corrupt rogue corporation hijacking everything to attacks to internal fuck-ups like we just experienced. Sure, they can design a better cloud, but at the end of the day, it’s still their cloud. The Internet needs to be less centralized, not more (and I don’t just mean that purely in terms of infrastructure, though that is included of course).

We need to ditch cloud entirety and go in house again.

Catch up on video games, reading, and maybe some shows they don’t care for.