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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

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A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. The fixed and sunk costs incurred by the cloud provider will dwarf any investment from third party service providers.