I'd like to share some dated, but still relevant, annual reflections on "cloud wars" that I wrote in 2016 [0] and 2017 [1]. Back then I was an exec at VMware, CTO of their cloud division (vCloud Air), and previously a Tech Evangelist at AWS.

I re-read them now, after 4-5 years, to see how much I was right and wrong about my predictions.

I hope you find these interesting.

[0]: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2016-3f...

[1]: https://medium.com/simone-brunozzi/the-cloud-wars-of-2017-ac...

Is this pod worth listening to? Kinda hard to decide based on the transcript-lacking landing page.

https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/07/the-cloud-is-not-fla...

https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/12/2020-platformonomics...

I recall Lydia Leong's theory was that the number of big cloud players would be driven by what the ecosystem could support. If you are providing services on top of cloud technology you can't really afford to support more than a hand full of APIs.

Is there a transcript somewhere?

There weren't really any "cloud wars" until very recently Cloudflare started murdering egress cash cows for the Big Three. Antitrust authorities have probably been paid off by lobbyists to not pay attention to this rather obvious price fixing.