Many companies embraced change as the COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges and continues to have a multi-sector impact on nations, businesses, and citizens. As cloud computing continues to grow, there are three major trends for the post-COVID era: cost optimization, containerization and serverless computing, and edge. The cloud is a dominant force and the pandemic further demonstrated that many processes can be managed remotely if companies have the right cloud implementation in place. Examine recent growth trends, find out how to navigate them, and see how they're likely to evolve.