The cloud providers are providing a lot of software as well: relational databases, other kinds of data stores, load balancers and so on. They also provide you an integrated ecosystem where these things work well together.<p>Correspondingly, you need far fewer engineers in your company to build and maintain custom software for such things. I am wondering whether in medium term - say the next 4 to 5 years - we are going to see an order of magnitude decrease in the number of jobs in this sector.