[mancerayder]

AWS was affected at one point.

I fully agree with you about the paradox of how, in the intent to de-centralize we centralize into cloud VPSes and managed services.

The real reason for the move is that same showtune that we keep hearing in our heads and wish we could tune it out: it's cheaper to move from physical infrastructure to the cloud. It's cheaper to skimp on security by not updating IoT devices. It's cheaper to skimp on security because features need to come first. It's cheaper to outsource operational management to parties with less expertise in places that pay less. To spend less time securing infrastructure perimeters because it costs money.

We feel almost as if we feel comfort hiding behind heavyweights like Google and Amazon will protect us from the bad elements of the world, where we hear about major breaches every few weeks (eg., Yahoo being the most recent). Will this strategy pan out long-term?

With this DDOS, articles about machine learning picking up better password-cracking/guessing algorithms by having previously analyzed large volumes of passwords, major breaches in the financial world, talk of state-sponsored attacks (a la DNC emails) it certainly FEELS like the Internet has gotten a little bit more wild.