[jasonrichardsmi]

Google released VMs in 2013, the year of this documentary, which means they were working on it for some time prior to this discussion.

[mohanmcgeek]

The tipping point was NASA dropping out of openstack to sign a contract with AWS.

You should checkout Azure presentations from 2012 to find out how nobody saw the "cloud" coming.

Kubernetes was a very effective strategy to make AWS knowledge irrelevant by providing a layer on top/alternative interface and it succeeded. Obviously AWS consultants would hate it for it.