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Ask HN: Is todays IT infrastructure to much depended on few key players?

5 pointsby Tschaybaover 2 years ago
It seems to me that today IT services depend to much on few large providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, etc.<p>They seem to be to-big-to-fail, but are they actually now single points of failure for modern IT infrastructure?<p>Was the old way (each company would have its own data&#x2F;data-center&#x2F;network&#x2F;infrastructure) was more prone to errors and failures?<p>It seems to me that internet this days is pretty centralized.

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orionblastarover 2 years ago
Startups can create alternatives to those services. Then get bought out by one of the big tech companies like Microsoft or Google. Don&#x27;t be afraid to compete as long as yours is cheaper and better quality.<p>The Microsoft Windows Empire upsets me because businesses depend on it and Windows 10&#x2F;11 updates take too long and mess up device drivers and programs.