Summary

The shift from private to public cloud was catalyzed by the needs of employees and customers. Whether it’s teams looking to be more productive or customers asking for better availability or new features, the public cloud is a great way to build infrastructure that’s highly secure, available, reliable, and performant. While the same technical benefits may be achieved or nearly replicated in private cloud environments, organizations would be hard-pressed to deliver the same quality of service at the same cost relative to public cloud.

Building data centers is no small feat and entire teams would be required for the planning and management of the physical components of the infrastructure. By specializing their engineering teams and focusing on building performant code and new features, companies can out-innovate their competition.

Understanding the shift to public cloud as well as networks as a whole provides us with the foundational knowledge upon which to...