[mschuster91]

> Why trust a cloud provider who could go down and take half the Internet with it? Why centralize it that much where that is even possible?

The problem is that governments worldwide have done little to curb abusive behavior that makes this all but necessary to survive on the Internet:

- India (for US/UK based callcenter scams) and Turkey (for German based) don't do shit against scam callcenters. There have been multiple high-profile Youtubers making videos exposing these scammers and police there hasn't done anything, some have even boasted about having connections to bribed police officers protecting them.

- Russia, China, North Korea and Iran haven't been kicked off of the Internet despite both nations actively running hacking campaigns and sheltering hackers and "bullet proof" hosters.

- Western governments still don't mandate open source or at least audits for Internet-connected appliance software, which means that there are tons of devices (smart cameras, other smart home systems, routers, ...) out there that end up compromised, and on top of that residential Internet connection speeds routinely cross 100 MBit/s these days giving compromised appliances an awful lot of leverage for DDoS attacks (which is the chief use case for employing Cloudflare, AWS Cloudfront+WAF and others).

There simply is too much abuse in the system

[johnklos]

Yes! We need centralize the abuse where the NSA can get what they want.