The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer — They Let It Burn
Summary
The article argues that cloud infrastructure is not magical but fragile, using real incidents to illustrate how outages at AWS and errors at Cloudflare can ripple across the internet. It contends that reliance on a few providers has economic and design consequences and suggests a shift back toward bare metal in some cases. It implications for system design and DevOps practices, especially for SMB IT.