> At least half of those the promise was realised though
I dunno, I think there might be different sets of "promises" here.
For example, "cloud infrastructure" is now a real thing which is useful to some people, so one could claim that "the promise of cloud infrastructure" was fulfilled.
However that's not really the same promises as when consultants preached that a company needed to be Ready For The Cloud, or when marketing was in a slapping "Cloud" onto existing product marketing, or unnecessary/failed attempts to rewrite core business logic into AWS lambda functions, etc.
I dunno, I think there might be different sets of "promises" here.
For example, "cloud infrastructure" is now a real thing which is useful to some people, so one could claim that "the promise of cloud infrastructure" was fulfilled.
However that's not really the same promises as when consultants preached that a company needed to be Ready For The Cloud, or when marketing was in a slapping "Cloud" onto existing product marketing, or unnecessary/failed attempts to rewrite core business logic into AWS lambda functions, etc.