Cloud Computing, Once Loved For Its Simplicity, Is Now A Complex Beast.

Someone gets it. When I first started reading about and experimenting with “cloud” computing, before it was even called that back in the late 90s and early 2000s, there were only a few things you could do with it. You could maybe build a server or cluster. That was about it.

Now, there are hundreds of different services and capabilities in a single “cloud” provider, and if you look at only the top three, there are thousands of of them.

The article to which I linked is more talking about business complexity, but that is valid to consider as well. Almost no business wants to or should move to some sort of cloud model completely. It’d be (vastly) more expensive often than than on-premises, and might violate data protection and other laws. These hybrid models, though, increase complexity and security concerns greatly.

The “cloud” BS was marketed as simplifying things. We real IT people knew that was always the marketing spiel only and exactly the opposite would happen.

And that is just what occurred.