Well it wasn't Google first to introduce, you may want to blame Amazon with AWS. Proper marketing made people believe in benefits of building applications this

Well it wasn't Google first to introduce, you may want to blame Amazon with AWS. Proper marketing made people believe in benefits of building applications this way and here we are now. I am scared to think traditional VPS/VDS and leased servers will cease to exist and we all will have to deal with GCP/AWS/Whatever. Hope this won't happen during my lifetime.