The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence As A Service In The Public Cloud

The first wave of cloud computing is attributed to platforms. Google App Engine, Engine Yard, Heroku, Azure delivered Platform as a Service (PaaS) to developers. The next big thing in the cloud was Infrastructure as a Service where customers could provision virtual machines and storage all by themselves. The third wave of cloud was centered around data. From relational databases to big data to graph databases, cloud providers offered data platform services covering a wide range of offerings.