You were making a point about people should run their own data centers. Netflix is not running their own data centers. Can you run your own data center in 90 areas around the world? Can you run your own globally distributed CDN? Your own globally distributed DNS? Are you saying that you never had any downtime? Can you stand up a replica of your object store, your caching and your database in both Europe and Asia so it can be closer to your outsourced developers and foreign customers? Does your data center in your basement allow me to set up subnets that span regions (not AWS “regions”, geographic areas - “Availability Zones”) just in case your basement floods?

What if I don't want a replica of data, what if I want to duplicate my entire infrastructure in Asia so the developers there can have a clone of our infrastructure - databases, storage, VMs, load balancers, multiple availability zones, etc. How long would it take you to do that? I could do it with a JSON script and run a command.

How fast can you provision a half dozen load balancers and five or ten dedicated computers - not VMs “dedicated hosts”? I can do it by creating a JSON file and running one command from my terminal.

And why should I trust you to set up a more reliable, redundant, network than AWS? Again Netflix didn’t trust themselves to create more reliable infrastructure and decided to trust a competitor to do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” and the guy who lead the transition is now a VP at AWS, so I think he knows something about infrastructure.