Abhijnan Chakraborty first heard of hyperscalers during 2012-13. An assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, he was working on big data and talking with other enterprises developing large scale solutions at the time. It was in 2006 that Amazon launched its Amazon Web Services (AWS), massive hyperscalers in terms of the size imaginable at that time. But it was not really the shape of the future then in the eyes of