Just about everyone agrees that the cloud is the biggest transformation in IT in decades, but you’ll hear many different reasons why. OpEx vs CapEx, no need to manage physical data centers, “agility", and other buzzwords. But, the real reason why cloud has had such a profound impact is because of the empowering role it has given developers.
In the data center, developers could move only as fast as the infrastructure and security team. But with cloud, developers own all of those functions — whether the organizations that employ them realize it or not. The effect has been profound. Cloud-based companies generally out-innovate their competition in strides.