3 years ago

The largest clouds evolved past that, to provide a proliferation of standard products that catered to a growing and increasingly diverse cloud user base. For most public cloud customers today, the bewildering array of public IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) configurations now induces decision fatigue.

As a result, there is a huge secondary market of cloud optimization businesses, a clear sign something is wrong for a lot of cloud customers.

Ideally, public cloud IaaS customers want to have someone else own and manage hardware infrastructure that is optimally tuned for their application’s performance requirements and cost constraints, while also getting a better deal on network bandwidth and latency, storage capacity and performance, and better security and advanced threat detection than they can afford to deploy themselves.

That is why the large public cloud IaaS providers try to cover as many of the popular instance types and sizes as possible.