THE CLOUD TIPPING POINT

THE CLOUD TIPPING POINT

Cloud computing used to be a fringe concept. Its predecessors – such as time sharing systems and thin clients – go back decades, but it wasn’t until the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the late 2000s that it really took off. It’s now so thoroughly in the mainstream that a core consumer-facing Apple service – iCloud, which is backed by AWS and Azure assets – has “cloud” right in its name.