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AWS is absolutely the new mainframe. The big difference is that when you rent from Amazon instead of IBM they provide the building the mainframe lives in.
by VectorLock 7y ago
AWS is absolutely the new mainframe. The big difference is that when you rent from Amazon instead of IBM they provide the building the mainframe lives in.
- goatinaboat 7y agoIn the 1970s there were companies called “mainframe bureaus” that did exactly that
- eru 7y agoAnd that's mostly because our 'dial-up lines' are better than they used to be. IBM would have been happy to rent you the building as well.