Why? They wouldn't buy it. No offence to anyone who has drank the kool-aid with AWS, but honestly they're making a product *not* foundational infrastructure.

Why? They wouldn't buy it. No offence to anyone who has drank the kool-aid with AWS, but honestly they're making a product *not* foundational infrastructure. This might feel like a jarring point. When you think of foundational infrastructure in the real world you think bridges and plumbing and the costs of building such things; which is stupidly high. Yet when those things get grossly privatised they end up like Lagos, Nigeria[0]. Because there is a difference between delivering something that works most of the time, and something that works all of the time -- Major point being: one of them is obscenely profitable, and the other one might not even break even, which is why governments usually take on the cost of foundational infrastructure: They never expect to even break-even. [0]: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-failure https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-...