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From the article: "I suspect that many still inaccurately equate or conflate “cloud” with “IaaS,” which is a perspective at least a full decade out of date. Wi
by carlineng 6y ago
From the article:
"I suspect that many still inaccurately equate or conflate “cloud” with “IaaS,” which is a perspective at least a full decade out of date. Without question, Amazon created and still leads the IaaS segment of the cloud—but the cloud of today looks nothing at all like it did 10 years ago when “cloud = IaaS” was a reasonable equation."
The "Cloud Revenue" number includes things like Dynamics, 365, etc.
- whimsicalism 6y agoIf you're comparing Microsoft with Amazon on "cloud" revenue than yes, I'm going to assume you're discussing IaaS. Otherwise it's like saying "McDonalds wallops GEICO in burger revenue."
- unethical_ban 6y agoI don't like the tone of that quote - IaaS barely existed a decade ago in its current form; "cloud" back then was SaaS, PaaS and maybe some VM hosting. Cloud has never been "just" S,P, or I "aaS". But it seems clear to me if you're going to write an article comparing any company's so-called Cloud revenue to Amazon, you're going to be comparing IaaS numbers.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoI think that's a bit of a red-herring. I feel that increasingly the real difference is between 'end-user facing cloud products' (which essentially always means SaaS) and 'developer-facing cloud products' (which includes all your IaaS/PaaS/some-SaaS). Historically, the term for 'end-user facing cloud SaaS product' was 'a website'; we're just seeing tighter IAM integration in the enterprise space and more powerful products as a result of the increased capabilities of JS engines and better frameworks. The difference is basically "this is stuff developers used to build products" vs "this replaces a shrink-wrap product that would historically have been delivered to a user desktop".