Can't buy stock contracts on Amazon/Microsoft/Google right before you announce the $1B investment towards cloud infrastructure if you roll it all yourself, though

> ...a lost art that even governments with sensitive data must cede to AWS/Azure/GCP?

Apparently, US aid to a country is usually spent on US companies; Israel is no exception: https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/google-amazon-nimbus-isr...

Apparently, yes: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-governme...

I’ve seen government datacenters. We should be thankful they’re using the cloud.

That’s not “cloud > onprem always”, that’s “even given cloud providers’ many faults governments are so terrible at managing and securing infrastructure today that the cloud is preferable for them”. Whether you anre pro- or anti-particular-government, you should still support gov-moves-to-cloud. The alternative is proven unbelievably worse on every possible axis.

It is more of people who can manage servers have no standing in front of people who buy or sell cloud services.

Some states can get away with what ever they want, so it does not matter for them.