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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing resources — servers, storage, databases, networking — over the internet, on demand. It shifted infrastructure from a capital expense to a metered utility.

Popularised: 2006 (AWS S3, EC2)

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Popularised: 2006 (AWS S3, EC2)

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Amazon and AWS

AWS did not start as a business plan. It started as a way to make Amazon's own developers move faster.

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