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preventing a catastrophe was ARPA's mitigation strategy. the point is where it's heading, not where it is. It's not about AWS per se, or any one company, it's the way it is consolidating. AWS came about by accident - cleverly utilizing spare server capacity from amazon.com.

In it's conception, the internet (not www), was not envisaged as a economical medium - it's success was a lovely side-effect.