Almost everyone moved their in house IT and infrastructure to Amazon/ Rackspace/ IBM/ Azure/ Google/ Whatever, got rid of their huge racks and pizzaboxes, and went on with their lives.
Enter the rise of Devops - A caste of people who control the know how of building, deploying and maintaining your servers. Mostly due to poor documentation of the host platform.
Then Docker came along - The ability to create containers for applications, which makes it even easier to run them - However, Docker comes with its own disadvantages (Irrelevant to this post.)
But recent years show a new trend - Where services like Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions are actually code containers (Rather than full blown OSs).
This changes the paradigm even further - No OS needed. Just code, deploy and go. Connect it to a file system (Amazon EFS)/ storage/ database/ whatever as a service, and you've got yourself a full working server with no OS, no deployment, all managed, secured, scaled and charged on demand.
This changes the economy of cloud services, as you actually pay for what you consume, and not for what you MIGHT consume (Even if you scale down during downtimes, it's never immediate)
It also changes the paradigm of programming - No need for security concerns (All managed), just a collection of volatile services.
In this new paradigm, cloud cyber, virtualization and devops businesses should take notice. Soon, their business might be completely irrelevant.
