Comment on This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.
p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 10 months agoI don’t like the use of the word cloud, makes it sound like some mystical virtual environment in the sky that anyone can use and it just works.
It’s someone else’s computer, nothing more
tal@kbin.social 10 months ago
I broadly agree that "cloud" has an awful lot of marketing fluff to it, as with many previous buzzwords in information technology.
However, I also think that there was legitimately a shift from a point in time where one got a physical box assigned to them to the point where VPSes started being a thing to something like AWS. A user really did become increasingly-decoupled from the actual physical hardware.
With a physical server, I care about the actual physical aspects of the machine.
With a VPS, I still have "a VPS". It's virtualized, yeah, but I don't normally deal with them dynamically.
With something like AWS, I'm thinking more in terms of spinning up and spinning down instances when needed.
I think that it's reasonable to want to describe that increasing abstraction in some way.
Is it a fundamental game-changer? In general, I don't think so. But was there a shift? Yeah, I think so.