I'd argue it's not hard to reproduce per se, just expensive; thankfully there are at least half a dozen (cloud) computing providers that have the necessary reso

I'd argue it's not hard to reproduce per se, just expensive; thankfully there are at least half a dozen (cloud) computing providers that have the necessary resources to do so. Google Cloud, AWS and Azure are the big competitors in the west (it seems / from my perspective), but don't underestimate the likes of Alibaba, IBM, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, Salesforce, Tencent, Oracle, Huawei, Dell and Cisco.