How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet
Dwayne Monroe
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Dwayne Monroe to discuss what it’s like to work in a data center, how the cloud came to hold a dominant position, and the consequences of its control by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Guest
Dwayne Monroe is a cloud technologist and aspiring Marxist theorist of technology, with twenty years of experience architecting large-scale computational systems. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at @cloudquistador.
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Links
- Dwayne wrote about cloud computing for Logic Magazine. He’s also written about a public cloud and the metaverse on his blog.
- Amazon’s cloud infrastructure in the eastern United States experienced a major outage in December 2021.
- Residents in various parts of the world have been questioning the logic of building data centers, including in the United States and New Zealand.
- In July, the network of Canadian telecom giant Rogers went down, leaving millions without service.