[rhizome]

>traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC

This is absolutely wrong unless you have rank n00bz leading your technology. This isn't even touching the implication that anything is harder to do outside of cloud hosting providers, it's just accounting for, well, the entire industry prior to, oh, let's say 10 years ago. It's not as prehistoric as it sounds, and in many (if not most) cases, the cloud providers are just slapping new trademarkable names on those classic architecture choices.

[closeparen]

Web hosts. There were of course other infrastructure providers that would support more complex architectures, but mostly of the “call us” variety.

[rhizome]

That is a distinction without a difference for me here, but the people have spoken regardless.