On January 28, 2023, I was given the opportunity to give a presentation at my alma mater, College of Engineering Poonjar , as a prelude of IHRD tech fest Tarang23. My manager at Google, Mr Sundar Pelapur , a veteran with two decades of experience in IT industry was my co-presenter . It was a great experience interacting with the next generation of Engineering talent , sharing with them our perspective of the topic " Disrupting the status quo: How Cloud and AI are shaping the future of our world ". Sharing below an summary of the tech talk, and some useful reference materials, which I think will be helpful for young IT professionals and students who want to make a career in Cloud computing: We started off with a brief history of cloud computing , on how the world has moved on from Mainframes in the 1970s to Server/client computing models and to the constructs of Public clouds today Let's define in simple terms what cloud computing is.. Its nothing but compute power an...