Why developers are over the cloud
That means meeting developers where they work: GitHub, VS Code, Cursor-style environments, CI/CD systems, and AI agents. It means outcome-native starts: deploy this app, connect this data, expose this API, add auth, evaluate this agent, secure this workflow, move this prototype into production. It means fewer scavenger hunts across product pages and establishing more golden paths (yes, even if that infuriates a service team that gets left out).
The old question was, “Can you run my workload?” For AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and others, the answer is almost always yes. But no one is impressed by this anymore. Therefore, the better question is, “Can you become part of how I build?”
Developers came to the cloud because it was the easiest way to get infrastructure. They’re shifting to developer experience platforms because those are the easiest way to get outcomes. If the cloud providers can become part of the first mile before the Vercels of the world become part of the second mile, they’ll win, and big. If they don’t, well….
