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Only in software industry do we still fee this way! For e.g. Can we imagine a car delivered to us without involvement of any third party components?

Why do we feel software always has to be built from scratch or use free (open?) stuff? What is wrong in software being built on credible third party services?

Perhaps the sign of a mature industry is when such credible third party partnerships become the norm...

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I reckon the main issue is reliability. In your example of car delivery, if one driver is unavailable, there's gonna be a replacement. You could argue that if one datacenter goes down there'll be another, but those too can fail - see also the Amazon outage last year or whenever it was. And unlike a car delivery, these 3rd party suppliers (like AWS) will severely impact your business if they fail.

Of course, so would a power outage. So IDK, there's pros and cons, as with everything.

My analogy was to depict a car company and not a single individual's car. As in software company using third party services has the same business risks as a car company using third party services.

My view point was not from a single individual using the product but from the manufacturers view point.

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