Before the cloud, you could get a VM provisioned (virtual servers) or a couple of apps set up (LAMP stack on a shared host ;)) in a few minutes over a web inter

Before the cloud, you could get a VM provisioned (virtual servers) or a couple of apps set up (LAMP stack on a shared host ;)) in a few minutes over a web interface already. "Cloud" has changed that by providing an API to do this, thus enabling IaC approach to building combined hardware and software architectures.