When a PaaS/Cloud provider says private networking, they mean RFC1918 address space. It's not publicly routed IP space which is private. So saying they offer pr

When a PaaS/Cloud provider says private networking, they mean RFC1918 address space. It's not publicly routed IP space which is private. So saying they offer private networking is accurate against that long standard definition. The technology and effort involved in providing the equivalent of AWS' VPC is huge and most smaller providers don't have the scale, man power, or resources to do it. It's a non-trivial solution to deploy. Not understanding the platforms you choose to use is not an excuse to write something like this article. It's also not an excuse to not understand how to manage the platform(s) you run your services on.