I know. The “Cloud” as an example of marketing would do the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation proud.
And increasingly that server will will have security if not storage run from Communist China.
One way my old company attempted to minimize spam and DDOS attacks was to use devices that would filter IP addresses based on their geographical registration. We blocked anything from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Central/South America.
Once our developers began using Microsoft's "Cloud" and Azure, we had constant failures, because there was no way to know which MS data centers were being used, including those in South America and Asia. We wound up removing most of the blocking, and immediately had an uptick in SPAM.
Mark