One of the cleverest things about the modern cloud:

Every physical server in the datacenter looks identical.

Not because they all do the same job — but because making them identical makes everything easier.

Maintenance is faster. Costs drop when you buy 100,000 of the same unit. And when one dies, a hypervisor instantly swaps in a fresh one without your app even noticing.

The Hyundai Elantra of computers. Boring on purpose.

Physical standardization → logical flexibility. That’s the whole trick.