the.com/cloud platforms
Renting someone else's computer and calling it infrastructure strategy.
means Companies like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud that lease servers, storage, and software tools over the internet instead of you buying and maintaining hardware.
from Coined from network diagrams where the internet was drawn as a fluffy cloud icon meaning who cares what's inside it, just works. AWS launched 2006, turning Amazon's spare server capacity into a business bigger than its retail arm.
amazon ironycloud division now more profitable than selling products
three giantsaws, azure, google cloud control two-thirds of market
actual locationliteral warehouses, not actually in the sky
lock-in costleaving a cloud provider often costlier than joining