# Commoditization of L2s and Cloud Computing

**Published by:** [Chad Fowler](https://paragraph.com/@chadfowler/)
**Published on:** 2024-02-01
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@chadfowler/commoditization-of-l2s-and-cloud-computing

## Content

Nany startups play the arbitrage game with cloud computing & storage credits from the major players. With the abstractions available today (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) deployment on different providers can be identical. The same is and will be the case for Ethereum L2s. New apps can be tourists in every ecosystem, benefit from grants and promotion from those ecosystems' developer relations functions and then move on when they see fit. For a certain class of application (e.g. a dex), this is an intended and desirable situation for all parties. For others, the app or protocol bring the usage and only one chain wins. Other than the obvious competitive race to the bottom in terms of fees and latency, this is a situation made possible and constantly exacerbated by Solidity and the EVM. Portability leads to low switching cost which leads to commoditization of the platform.

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