---
title: "2 Decades of Cloud Evolution"
description: "Explore the evolution of cloud computing over the past two decades."
image: "https://assets.bytebytego.com/diagrams/0147-cloud-evolution.png"
createdAt: "2024-03-02"
draft: false
categories:
  - cloud-distributed-systems
tags:
  - "Cloud Computing"
  - "Cloud Evolution"
---

![](https://assets.bytebytego.com/diagrams/0147-cloud-evolution.png)

IaaS, PaaS, Cloud Native… How do we get here? The diagram below shows two decades of cloud evolution.

## Cloud Evolution Timeline

*   2001 - VMWare - Virtualization via hypervisor

*   2006 - AWS - IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

*   2009 - Heroku - PaaS (Platform as a Service)

*   2010 - OpenStack - Open-source IaaS

*   2011 - CloudFoundry - Open-source PaaS

*   2013 - Docker - Containers

*   2015 - CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) - Cloud Native