[JaRail]

That said, hosting providers who historically ran services on only their own hardware could certainly be load-balancing to cloud hosting providers. This is certainly not what the comment you responded to implies. However, it is something I'd expect people to get confused about..

[WestCoastJustin]

You are right, a good example might be Heroku. Heroku is a hosting platform that is hosted on AWS (maybe parts or all; I'm not sure).

"Heroku’s physical infrastructure is hosted and managed within Amazon’s secure data centers and utilize the Amazon Web Service (AWS) technology. Amazon continually manages risk and undergoes recurring assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards." See https://www.heroku.com/policy/security.

This is the type of disclose I was talking about.