I Thought I Understood AWS - Until I Walked Into a Data Center

My visit to Yotta D1 Data Center - and a perspective shift every cloud engineer should experience I work on AWS systems almost every day. Designing APIs. Scaling services. Thinking about availability, latency, and cost. And like most of us, I’ve gotten very comfortable with abstractions: Spin up an EC2 instance Add autoscaling Configure a load balancer Done It all feels clean. Logical. Almost… effortless. Over time, you stop thinking about what’s underneath. Then I visited a r...