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> migrate to the cloud

Oh great, looking forward to a captcha every time I download a paper.

(FWIW, arXiv is one place I trust not to make such stupid decisions, but migrating to a cloud often means the decisions are no longer made in-house...)

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It's possible that they jump straight to the hybrid solution that many companies now make. Like migrating to the cloud could be just to have backups of papers in s3 with failures to download them initially then pass through to the s3 location seamlessly. It could also be trying to rewrite everything to run on lambda.

My point being that migrating to the cloud means different things to different companies/groups.

That'd be good.

I suspect this cloud move is more for security -- to keep others out -- than to improve the product. As you mention, many decisions will no longer belong to Cornell. This is indicative of larger geo-political trends.

Popping arXiv would be quite an impressive watering hole attack. You wouldn't need to do anything to the site itself, their PDFs are downloaded by a huge number of bleeding edge researchers and technical journalists.

keep who out?

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