Comment by JohnMakin

"The cloud" isn't the problem nor is migration to it. The problem is single points of failure in a vast, super-connected, global network.

To demonstrate my point, say someone like cloudflare opted to get "off cloud" and run their own datacenters. Half the web would still go down if they had some issue in their datacenters. If anything, the economy of scale and resiliency of a huge cloud network is far beyond what any single operator can ensure for their own service. If this wasn't the case, cloud services couldn't be as profitable as they are.

It isn't the panacea people seem to think it is. One critical service going down, regardless of whether it's cloud hosted or not, has ripple effects in the broader network.