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The article is very confusingly written. Maybe AI? It's conflating "cloud" hosting (AWS, etc) with renting hosting infrastructure (which includes the cloud, but also things we don't refer to as "cloud", like dedicated servers, VPS services, and shared hosting).
This paragraph makes it sound like Amazon were the first company to allow renting their servers:
but Linux-based virtual servers have been a thing for 20+ years or so, first with Linux-VServer then with OpenVZ. Shared servers in general date back to the mainframes of the 60s and 70s.
Similarly, this paragraph makes it sound like the only two choices are either to use "the cloud" or to run your own data center:
It also refers to a computer scientist that explains the outage yet never references this scientist at all.
Clarissa, clearly.
sits back down in rocking chair
...well there's her problem: she's still running US-EAST-1 on an amiga 500 in 2025...