> Where the actual silicon lives is merely an after-thought.
If you have to buy the silicon and plan capacity for it (as in the case with Oxide for example), then it cannot be an afterthought. Which is exactly why I would not consider it cloud computing.
The point is the application team doesn't have to do any of that.
Someone's always got to buy the tin and manage that. Some people are big enough that they might get a benefit from doing that themselves, rather than having Jeff Bezos do it for them.
From the application team's perspective, call API then container go whirr.
If you have to buy the silicon and plan capacity for it (as in the case with Oxide for example), then it cannot be an afterthought. Which is exactly why I would not consider it cloud computing.