cloud providers as a framework

(total cost of ownership (TCO) is dominated by maintenance; public cloud providers maintain their components and are less expensive in total cost)

Amazon IBM, Google, and other cloud providers have evolved their offerings to the point that they must now be considered application development frameworks, especially with cloud functions and no-ops.  The folks at Galvanize walk us through the evolution of cloud providers using AWS as an example and the inevitability of serverless and no-ops, forcing us to conclude that our cloud providers must now be considered software development frameworks.