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AWS. Being the first in market not only has been their advantage but also the struggle of the later movers like Oracle and Google.
by whoisjuan 7y ago
AWS. Being the first in market not only has been their advantage but also the struggle of the later movers like Oracle and Google.
- TwoBit 7y agoMicrosoft is in fact gaining a lot of traction in this space despite how late they were. They could actually surpass AWS. Chrome dominates despite being late, though partly due to being rammed by Google/Android, though it was also clearly better performing than IE (and FireFox early on).
- nexuist 7y agoWas AWS really first? > There will be some kind of competition already out there. I remember LAMP providers and FTP'ing PHP files before AWS. I remember cPanel and phpMyAdmin. I remember Unix boxes that gave you free user accounts w/ open ports and everyone operated on the honor system. While nobody could quite grasp the vast IT supply chain AWS would end up becoming, the writing had been on the wall for years. It only made sense to evolve from "here's a server" to "here's a server running a service" to "here's a service" to "here's a solution." I bet quite a few people had been dreaming of a platform like AWS by the time it came along, but of course they likely did not have the backing of a major tech company with superstar business leaders and tech experts (shoutout to Jeff Barr!).
- ralph84 7y agoThe idea of renting time on someone else's computing equipment goes back at least to the 1930s. https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-government-kill-cloud-computing-over-50-years-ago.html https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-govern...