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

Cloud Isn’t Magic: What I Learned Inside a Real Data Center My visit to Yotta D1 Data Center - and a perspective shift every engineer needs I work on AWS systems almost every day-deploying services, designing APIs, scaling workloads. Over time, you start thinking in abstractions: EC2 instances Load balancers Autoscaling groups It all feels clean. Logical. Almost infinite. And honestly, you stop questioning it. Then I walked into a real data center. And that illusion disappeared. The Scale We Don