Backups also seem like a mostly solved problem; there's plenty of software that can back up a server to your own cloud storage account.
I hope we'll eventually be able to use some of the key storage/backup solutions being developed mostly in the cryptocurrency sphere. Like, multiparty computation (MPC) is agnostic to the type of key being created, and some of the social recovery methods being tested could be applied to parts of the key. Being able to protect your key from loss but also from theft is a hard problem they're highly incentivized to solve (and other people are highly incentivized to test/break).
> Heck, AWS can't access VMs (of course it's Internet cool to not believe this).
Do the VMs only let someone in if they’re running a criminal workload, or how does it work?
I wonder what it would be like to hold no opinions that you could ever imagine becoming controversial enough to get you flagged for investigation of some kind. I live in an intensely polarized country (U.S.), so it's actually hard for me to imagine caring about anything with any level of passion that one party or the other (heck, or both) wouldn't eventually want to put me on a watchlist for.
What's it like to have that much trust in the ongoing goodwill of other people?
With ever increasing trend of "hate speech" laws popping up, that timetable of "until" is coming up faster and faster for anyone and everyone.
If you rent from an actual data center, you pay for a ton of stuff you don't really need for personal backups. If your home internet goes out and you can't access your personal cloud for a bit, it's likely not a big deal, so you don't need the level of redundancy that a data center gives you. On the flip side, the premium you pay for professionally hosted storage is enormous compared to buying a hard drive.
Local storage is free or cheap with VMs so I don't see that as a problem.
Of course, there is an obvious argument to be made that my time is worth more than the cost savings, but I've been learning a lot so I instead consider it a free education. :)