This is the chauvinism I maybe failed to surface effectively enough. People in the cloud "just scale"; and big cuddly cloud says "ooooh, we block DoS and we won

This is the chauvinism I maybe failed to surface effectively enough. People in the cloud "just scale"; and big cuddly cloud says "ooooh, we block DoS and we won't charge you for the ingress traffic" when they whine. Whereas it really should be alleged DoS, it's not like I won't implement mitigations. I publish telemetry outing the worst offenders. What is Amazon doing for me, as a non-customer, to support our presumably shared goal? So maybe it's not really a shared goal. Here's an analogy which is very visceral for me: I have a chronic condition, which has never been "root caused" in my case by the school of western allopathic medicine. They put me on (several) drugs, I've taken them for a decade. Due to the ongoing enshittification of medical care over the past several years, I ended up having to see a naturopathic physician (with prescribing privileges, and not covered by my insurance) to get the prescriptions renewed because the western docs simply had better things to do than schedule and keep an appointment. Dude does the things a western doc should do, looks at the labs, and says with all seriousness: have you considered maybe you're allergic to drug "Y"? Holy fuck well that causes all kinds of problems identifying a replacement therapy, but that's not the point of the story here. Point is they've never done root cause, blamed the increasingly worse side effects on the condition they never root caused, put me on more drugs for the side effects, and told me to just live with it because that's what happens when you get older: this is what happens when you get trapped in an ecosystem. So I have identified a replacement therapy, it maybe doesn't work so well for the symptom drug Y was supposed to mitigate but it works. On the other hand, here are the side effects: constellation of symptoms of the actual condition (drug Y was intended to mitigate only one of them) has virtually disappeared, I sleep better, I have more energy, and I've lost nearly 20 pounds in the last six months. In summary, it's not that hard to run my own server (I have the skills, knowledge and specialized bespoke tools to support doing it my way). It keeps my professional skills sharp and gives me real practical intelligence about the fight in the streets.