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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Cloud Investing with Danel Dayan
Description: Cloud computing caused a fundamental economic shift in how software is built. Before the cloud, businesses needed to buy physical servers in order to operate. There was an up-front cost that often amounted to tens of thousands of dollars required to pay for these servers. Cloud computing changed the up-front capital expense to an ongoing operational expense, with businesses increasingly shifting to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Platform. Although the initial motivation for moving onto cloud providers might have been decreased cost, over time the cloud providers have developed unique services that ma...