Almost every company I’ve worked for in the last 10 years wouldn’t have even been founded in the first place without cloud computing. The value of cloud comput

Almost every company I’ve worked for in the last 10 years wouldn’t have even been founded in the first place without cloud computing. The value of cloud computing is that it gets business logic in production fast with unlimited flexibility and a reduced dependence on cost center specialists in areas like operations, security, and database administration. With cloud computing I can deploy my entire stack to a region in another part of the globe with ~10 lines of configuration, terraform apply and it’s done. I’m doing things by myself that I used to rely on multiple other people to handle (like setting up and maintaining databases, networking, firewalls, security tooling, etc). I also used to waste a bunch of time maintaining vendor products that had nothing to do with the business. I used to have responsibilities like Jira administrator - ick! The last time I worked for a company that had an on-premise data center I had a months-long email chain where I was told we were basically out of storage in a specific region so I had to wait for the VMs I requested.