[julianozen]

Definitely has similarities. I think we do not realize how most top websites and services rarely go down anymore, and we use them 100 times more than we did 20 years ago. Building your own networking, compute, storage, CDN, or database solutions to avoid dependencies on AWS or Cloudflare would almost certainly lead to more service downtime than relying on highly sophisticated third parties.

But now, when one of these services breaks, everything on the internet goes down. And it is a lot easier to explain to your director of engineering that the whole internet is down than to say that your custom home-rolled storage system fell over, or whatever esoteric infrastructure failure you may run into doing it yourself.