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I'd be curious how thing would look if the cloud providers broken up horizontally. Like, if the companies that provided VM's were different from the ones who pr
by daxfohl 6y ago
I'd be curious how thing would look if the cloud providers broken up horizontally. Like, if the companies that provided VM's were different from the ones who provided higher-level services. That's kind of how it was originally with Heroku and its add-ins, and AWS/Rackspace. I liked that so much better and wish it stayed that way. If you want a VM, go to Rackspace and knock yourself out. If you want a hosted thing then go to Heroku, or whichever service hosts things in the language of your choice. But the point is, you make a choice, when you sign up for whichever service, what level of the stack you want to operate in.
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- skohan 6y agoI can also imagine this approach having benefits as a consumer of services, but it's hard to imagine a world where vertical integration would not win over time. There's just too much of an advantage in terms of large cloud providers being able to optimize their hardware setups at data-centers to make their services cheaper, more performant, and more tightly integrated than 3rd party competitors.
- daxfohl 6y agoI guess. But then Anthos, Arc, EKS Anywhere, they're all horizontal, and so it's odd that they are also all run by the cloud providers themselves. I'd think those services would be the next layer, run by different companies. Still, what you said is right. I mean, heroku still exists, but the ever present complaints are that it's too expensive at scale and that it is too constraining. So, maybe the vertical is the best approach.