@p @charlie_root @JoshuaSlocum @mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato "I can't hear you over the sound of US-EAST-CHAOS-MONKEY downtime."
FIFY. And last time I checked, it controlled some global AWS stuff....
But the rest of your rant is misplaced, it's all, has for a very long time been a set of trade offs. Using what makes sense for you has never been bad advice, and "clouds" like AWS have some good use cases, like highly variable loads, one off jobs, low upfront capital costs, and as mentioned storage.
Heck, "serverless" directly invokes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law (not my observation, BTW).
"[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."