I was enjoying the article and then he makes some of the most bizarre claims about what cloud did and how we had to provision servers

If any of you young'uns read this, that is not how we had to do provisioning before cloud.

VMs already existed before AWS came out. You could already provision a new server usually in minutes and rent it month to month.

In fact, all the existing VM server companies had to start calling themselves cloud companies because pointy haired bosses couldn't understand what cloud really was.