Without speaking to their likelihood of success (enough posters have already spoken on this), one thing I think is interesting is Stack-it have limited scope to

Without speaking to their likelihood of success (enough posters have already spoken on this), one thing I think is interesting is Stack-it have limited scope to compute/storage/security and network orchestration resources. It's almost like AWS before they expanded to having a mind numbing number of service offerings. Who can keep up with all these? Who, other than people training for cloud architect certifications? I worry that AWS has lost focus on its core services and instead is trying to market every shiny new thing under the sun... I work in finance, my corp is in us-east region. I think we had like 3 AWS related incidents that caused serious production outages last year... All from use of core AWS services. Now we are looking to support cross-region fault tolerance to defend against this. Supporting such a strategy sounds like it's going to be quite expensive, and technically complex.