No, and I think this is the difference: I don't consider social media and web hosting as utilities the way phone companies and ISPs are. There are a lot of comp

No, and I think this is the difference: I don't consider social media and web hosting as utilities the way phone companies and ISPs are. There are a lot of competitors in those spaces and it's relatively easy to spin up new ones, which is not true of things like the phones and internet service. > If you cannot use AWS, GCP and Azure, there's a significant possibility your business will not be able to survive in today's market. ...I contend that this is ridiculous. I work for a company that doesn't use any of these services, I know of many companies not using these services, and in fact I'd say most of the companies using these services really don't need them because they'll never scale large enough to make them worthwhile, it's just that it's currently the fad of our industry.