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2 Decades of Cloud Evolution

Explore the evolution of cloud computing over the past two decades.

IaaS, PaaS, Cloud Nativeā€¦ 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