[jamestimmins]

This could be the premise for a fun project based infra learning site.

You get X resources in the cloud and know that a certain request/load profile will run against it. You have to configure things to handle that load, and are scored against other people.

[YouAreWRONGtoo]

All it means is that the cloud doesn't work like a power socket, which was the whole point of it.

Things like Lambda do fit in this model, but they are too inefficient to model every workload.

Amazon lacks vision.