How Cloud Computing Became a Big Tech Battleground | WSJ

Big tech firms are investing in data centers as they compete for the $214 billion cloud computing market. WSJ explains what cloud computing is, why big tech is betting big on future contracts.

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[ev.c]

People: "I don't understand how come software people earn so much money".

Software industry scaling capabilities: Me neither

[dom]

there is just one thing I don't like.... Public services who relies on private cloud computing and also the fact that since it's a game where the bigger sharks win, we could have issues giving all the data to just few hegemonic players.

[posteroonie]

I don't know how to square the 225 billion USD cloud market size at 4:15, and the pie chart at 3:44 showing AWS having almost half the market, with Amazon's AWS revenue being around 26 billion USD for the first 3 quarters of 2019.

[davidjackowski]

1:30 you failed to incorporate the offsetting increase in cloud computing spending.

[springbok]

Facebook and NSA you say? Not sure which is worse.

[joeyzo]

Because data is the new oil for tech world

[BriefNerdOriginal]

Safety and privacy aware companies, on the other side need just an easier way to maintain servers internally. Outsourcing everything to private corporations that serve $s instead of people, in the long run, is going to create the same infrastructure problems that USA has having with roads, just to name one. A conflict or non-alignement of interests is and will be at the core of this inevitable issue.

[lonewolfcoding]

it amazes me that it automates the scaling of your IT infra in a single click of a button

now im now more curious how they did that

[joshn]

The cloud computing industry could be at risk though because these cloud providers have failed to properly secure the data. They need to implement solutions to offer the customer to encrypt their data before it is sent to the cloud. That way it is guaranteed to not be at risk.

[Elimba]

Cloud networks are awesome, device's through higher transfer speeds, can achieve more higher computions collectively. In which from cloud server's, then by it's own initial device's hardware.

[aviefern]

This article seems to be missing one of the biggest key components in cloud computing...and that's the infrastructure that connects these clouds through global networks. There's Tata Communications that owns about 30% of the world's fibre backbone and connects most of these data centers via their 15 Tbps Tier 1 network. Without that network infrastructure, these clouds are completely disconnected and useless.

[XSpImmaLion]

Is this an advertisement piece? How about giving the subject a more balanced coverage WSJ?
Like talking about all the privacy and security problems that came with moving everything into the cloud. Like talking about how cloud storage had a surge and bubble burst back some years ago. Like how several of the high profile leaks that happened putting out the private data of millions of americans out in the open were about misused and badly configured cloud computing usage? How hacking groups are monitoring daily services provided by the likes of AWS because you will often find unencrypted badly configured databases there for the taking?

[cjjames]

Decentralized cloud computing is the future. Make more sense the public would benefit more if they perform the due diligence vs the big tech companies. # Sia

[yrysf]

good explanation . Will cloud be replaced in 20-30 years ?

[ReasonableHuman]

AWS is still way ahead of everybody else. 60% of the growth rate for MS is confusing as we are talking about much smaller absolute numbers.

[SuSmallville]

In the words of Ronny Chieng : " Facebook wants your Data"

[ZEDNANREHIGH]

Can the cloud protect it self from an EMP.

[innamanjoubert]

Nothing exposes sensitive information like cloud computer storage and hypervisors.Very bad idea indeed only promoted by IT technicians who have no other means of employment and have all become intoxicated with a form of ransomware and computing architecture.No more "click bait" instead it's "click and we dictate fees and excarebate benefits while you fail an actual checkup on your prostate".

[안재헌-bs]

Alibaba? Good luck with that. I am sure lots of companies CTO will sleep well with their data in the Chinese company's server.

[rupamkundu]

AWS is still the market leader and is going to remain so for the foreseeable future because it is innovating at a rapid pace and caters to businesses of all sizes. Today it has more than 150 services and a wide geographical reach. AWS offers a strong value proposition to even small companies which can get started by purchasing a domain name from Amazon Route 53, host a Wordpress website on Amazon Lightsail and use Amazon Workmail for their business email needs. Once the enterprise market gets saturated the cloud battleground is going to shift to the SME space where AWS offers a strong value proposition too.