There is not doubt that cloud is next moonshot. But leaders in cloud: AWS, Azure are not really tier 1 company. Google cloud may be the best to work for then? We all know the crazy pay of OCI, but I don’t see people speak high of anything of them else. So cloud is a very promising industry while with limited good employers?
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Rest is re packaged software with managed control plane and outsourcing of ops load to another company basically. Clearly that is not top tech. But mostly this boring stuff is what makes most money ....
Basically customers pay these cloud companies to offload operational burden
Plus the type of profit model they’re attempting to achieve with this enterprise-first cloud stuff seems like small cookies compared to selling ads and leveraging user data, ie Google’s traditional profit sources.
There was a similar lack of doubt about wearables, VR, driverless cars, mobile first, social, fiber, and the future of liberal democracies. Now nobody cares.
(Also, the potential to interchangeably jump to: GCP<->OCI<->AWS<->Azure seems pretty sweet)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-of-amazons-2017-operating-income-comes-from-aws/
We are actively bringing computing resources in-house, because at a certain scale, we can serve our own base load cheaper than using a cloud provider.
Cloud isn’t anything new, we call it time sharing on mainframes.
F and G are B2C companies giving free stuff to all of the morons in the universe....thats alot of scalability...also winner takes all market affords higher margin for the winner so they can spend more on engineers.