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2 Decades of Cloud Evolution

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

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