I’ve been thinking about AWS lately. Not the cloud service, but what it changed for the internet.

Before AWS, building online meant huge upfront costs. Servers. Data centers. Ops teams.

Now, you spin up infra fast.
@arbitrum Orbit feels like it’s playing a similar role for Web3.

Here’s the parallel I see:

2000s: Companies bought physical servers
2010s: AWS made compute rentable

Today: dApps compete for shared Ethereum blockspace
Orbit lets you deploy dedicated chains with far lower setup friction.

Shared infra shifts toward customizable infra.

What makes Orbit different from a standard L2 setup is control.
You choose:
- Gas token
- Data availability model
- Governance structure
- Economic rules

In my opinion, this supports a form of progressive decentralization, where teams decide the pace.

Today, Arbitrum runs multiple production chains with different tradeoffs.

Arbitrum One focuses on security and general use.

Nova targets low cost, high throughput apps.

Orbit chains let teams tailor infra to their needs without competing for shared blockspace.

Looking ahead, I expect more teams to choose dedicated chains over shared execution.

Gaming studios. Protocols with heavy throughput needs. Enterprises starting private, then opening up.

The tooling exists. The deployment path is clearer than it was even a year ago.

This matters beyond fees.
Stylus enables contracts in Rust and other languages via WASM.

BoLD introduces permissionless validation.
Timeboost gives chain owners control over MEV policy.
You are no longer limited to someone else’s defaults.

In my opinion, the question is shifting.
Less "which L2 should I deploy on"
More "does my app need its own chain"
Orbit doesn’t remove every barrier, but it lowers them enough to change how builders think.