> Disagreeing with your thesis isn't propaganda. The issue is not that people disagree, it's that: 1) People use surface level arguments that have been debunk

> Disagreeing with your thesis isn't propaganda. The issue is not that people disagree, it's that: 1) People use surface level arguments that have been debunked a few times (SLA, backups, reduction in headcount) 2) There is an aggressively high frequency of these arguments. If you couple that with the marketing spend of major cloud providers; it's easy to paint a picture of at least a small contingent of people who's livelihoods depend on keeping cloud growing; combined with a contingent of people who have skilled into a cloud (sunk-cost fallacy) and don't want to reskill and you have a decent self-reinforcing propaganda machine. It likely helps things that there's nobody except a tiny plurality of nerds who really care to refute the marketing claims. There's not many colocation or hosting companies with even 1% of the marketing spend of even the third largest hyperscaler (google). I wrote about the three major reasons you'd want to use a cloud provider here: https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/ https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/