> The simplest definition of cloud is a data centre that's full of identical hardware that no-one ever touches except to unpack it on day one and throw it away

> The simplest definition of cloud is a data centre that's full of identical hardware that no-one ever touches except to unpack it on day one and throw it away when it fails; The hardware, yes. > in between, every deployment, update, investigation, and management process is automated. Well, that's simple not true. Maybe most if it is automated but not every. And the thing that the author doesn't understand is that I don't own the hardware, I don't ownbthe software and I don't own the data that's in the server, even if the data is about me. It is almost like renting an apartment but every furniture I buy and put in it becames property of the apartment owner and I only have some pseudo-rights about them.