Amazon CTO Vogels: Cloud is getting closer and closer

The proliferation of Amazon's AWS, and cloud computing more generally, means that cloud computing is no longer something remote but a function that is becoming embedded in computing at every moment, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. "It's right around the corner," literally, if you're on a 5G phone on a carrier point of presence in an AWS local zone.

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"Cloud is around the corner these days," said Werner Vogels, Amazon's chief technologist, in an interview Wednesday with ZDNetvia Amazon's Chime video program.

Vogels, who has been the chief technologist for over 17 years at the cloud giant, was reflecting on how the build-out of cloud computing technology, and particularly Amazon's AWS, which pioneered the public cloud in 2007, has made cloud computing more deeply enmeshed in all computer use.

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The general public said Vogels still has a perception that "cloud is a few things that sit out there, somewhere," he said. "And, maybe in the early days, when we launched the first two regions of AWS, that was the case."

"But now, there's 24 regions around the world, 84 availability zones, hundreds of points of presence, pushing things to the edge in 5G access points, up in space -- you know, cloud's getting closer and closer to every individual," said Vogels, referring to the overall scope of AWS infrastructure.

Cloud is literallyaround the corner, in the sense that when you're walking and talking and texting and app'ing, there's some AWS there. 

"If you have your 5G phone, I wouldn't be surprised if you are accessing AWS services of your carrier -- actually running in an AWS access point close to you.

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