AWS is this Generation's Mainframe [2026w7]

Has the cloud just made us reliant on a new generation of centralized mainframes? In this episode of Lead Prompt, I break down the centralized architecture of AWS, exploring the severe global impact of single points of failure, vendor lock-in, and why modern software engineers need to rethink cloud infrastructure risks. Show notes are here: https://leadprompt.sh/a/727-AWS-is-this-Generation's-Mainframe-2026w7 Keywords: AWS, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, mainframe, centralized architecture, decentralized computing, IBM, dumb terminal, vendor lock-in, blast radius, us-east-1, AWS outage, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, single point of failure, SPOF, tech history, server outage, backend development, Lead Prompt podcast