Pain, Problems, Solutions
Pain, Problems, Solutions
Imagine you're launching a new website twenty years ago. Someone asks a simple question. "Where will your application run? " Back then, there was only one answer. Buy a physical server. That meant purchasing expensive hardware, waiting for delivery, installing it in a data center, and hoping you had bought enough computing power for the future. If your website suddenly became popular, you couldn't instantly add more capacity. And if it didn't grow as expected, you'd be left with costly hardware sitting mostly idle. This wasn't just a business problem. It was an engineering problem. How can computing become available whenever we need it, without everyone owning physical machines? Different cloud companies answered this question differently. Amazon, Microsoft and Google all built their own platforms and gave their services different names. But here's the secret. The names are temporary. The engineering problems are permanent. In this playlist, we'll first understand the engineering problem, then see how AWS, Azure and Google Cloud each solve it. Let's begin with the first question. How do you rent a computer instead of buying one?
