# The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

DevFeed: [The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-cloud-is-not-a-railroad-an-argument-against-the-vertical-separation-of-cloud-providers-33610.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://highscalability.com/the-cloud-is-not-a-railroad-an-argument-against-the-vertical/>)

Author: High Scalability

Published: 2022-10-24T10:52:23Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [High Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/high-scalability-3.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/industry.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [providers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/providers.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues against vertically separating cloud providers, saying the proposed regulation would not solve the relevant problems and could reduce the quality of software developers build by limiting the services cloud providers can offer.

## Source excerpt

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services.