Chapter 4
Innovative Services and Public Clouds: What Do You Really Pay For?
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile.
— Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions
Now that we’ve covered some of the more mundane cloud services, including storage and compute, let’s move on to the services that really drive cloud computing today. These more innovative and advanced services include AI, serverless, analytics, data lakes, and much more. They dominate much of what the technology press (including myself) currently writes about.
Here, we don’t concentrate ...
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