> I am not sure why people suddenly get outraged about cloud Because now we are in the part of the business cycle where companies merge into a few huge sellers

> I am not sure why people suddenly get outraged about cloud Because now we are in the part of the business cycle where companies merge into a few huge sellers. I couldn't name most of the webhost providers from 20 years ago, but Amazon is literally a household name. So now it's not "A few Geocities knock-offs are using PHP for free and making a few bucks off a few people" it's "One of the biggest companies ever is making (seemingly) tons of profit off of almost everyone in the software industry." Also the fact that in the last 20 years FOSS really succeeded in its mission - Proprietary software on the desktop is a joke now. The frontline has been pushed back to network apps where the backend is proprietary and the frontend is throw-away code that's useless without API keys. So "stuff on the web" has gone from a low-profit novelty to 90+% of all software revenue. I won't cite anything because we're talking about feelings. This is probably what the average 30-ish programmer feels about the situation, and if I got the facts wrong, I doubt anyone else is looking at these facts before deciding how to feel about AWS' marketshare.