Once upon a time, it was pretty clear what people meant when they talked about āthe cloud.ā They were referring to servers and/or data storage that ran in the cloud. Today, however, the cloud could mean many other things, as well. Appreciating how the definition of cloud computing and cloud services has evolved over the past decade is critical for understanding how organizations can leverage the cloud today–as well as for predicting the future of cloud computing.
When marketers and IT managers started talking excitedly about āthe cloudā in the mid-2000s, they were referring to three types of services: IaaS, PaaS or SaaS. Actually, early on, they were referring above all to IaaS, which at the time involved virtual machines and storage that you connected to via the internet. That was the main service provided by the first big public cloud companies, like Amazon Web Services. When AWS launched in 2006, its first major services were EC2 virtual machines and S3 storage.
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