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2 Decades of Cloud Evolution

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Overview

IaaS, PaaS, Cloud Native… How do we get here? The diagram below shows two decades of cloud evolution.

Cloud Evolution Timeline

  • 2001 - VMWare - Virtualization via hypervisor
  • 2006 - AWS - IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
  • 2009 - Heroku - PaaS (Platform as a Service)
  • 2010 - OpenStack - Open-source IaaS
  • 2011 - CloudFoundry - Open-source PaaS
  • 2013 - Docker - Containers
  • 2015 - CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) - Cloud Native
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