&quot;Serverless&quot; is wrong in a very technical way - they have a very distinct meaning in their head, but they&#x27;re just choosing to wilfully ignore a huge part of the stack so they can call it that.<p>DevOps has as many different definitions as practitioners, and few will completely agree on the same definition.<p>Cloud is one of the worst frankly, because it is so hand-wavy and it&#x27;s made it into every day language. My assumption is that this name came from the &#x27;cloud&#x27; icon used in a lot of technical diagrams to represent something outside of your control and outside of your scope for the current project. I guess in some ways that makes &quot;Cloud&quot; the perfect term to describe things like AWS&#x2F;et-al: something that is out of your control.