No, you are completely wrong. Cloud providers are not carriers, they are service providers(PaaS, IaaS.)
"Carrier" in this context(Net Neutrality) is short for telecommunications carrier, which are regulated by the FCC in the United States[1].
The classification is a legal one. It was refined by the Telecommunications Act of 1996[2]
AWS/Azure/GCE are neither regulated by the FCC nor classified as telecommunications carriers as they do not sell broadband access.
Simply owning you own "backbone" does not make you a carrier either. There are plenty of large corporations that own their own backbones that are not carriers. Being a carrier has nothing to do with hosting content either.
"Carrier" in this context(Net Neutrality) is short for telecommunications carrier, which are regulated by the FCC in the United States[1].
The classification is a legal one. It was refined by the Telecommunications Act of 1996[2]
AWS/Azure/GCE are neither regulated by the FCC nor classified as telecommunications carriers as they do not sell broadband access.
Simply owning you own "backbone" does not make you a carrier either. There are plenty of large corporations that own their own backbones that are not carriers. Being a carrier has nothing to do with hosting content either.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
[2[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996