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using cloud services is the antithesis of decentralization

I can't agree.

Modern apps and DevOps practices are completely datacenter and provider agnostic. For example any large-scale analytic cluster has redundancy and datacenter-level failover much like blockchains have.

Decentralized? Yes. Distributed? No.

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