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really? So EC2 is a DARPA program? Would make sense as Internal is also a military project. EDIT: can you provide some links thanks to this. Thanks.
by 0df8dkdf 6y ago
really? So EC2 is a DARPA program? Would make sense as Internal is also a military project.
EDIT: can you provide some links thanks to this. Thanks.
- oli5679 6y agoBelow is a link with some of the history of EC2. It wasn't linked to Darpa but it was developed as an experimental project by an autonomous team in South African office lead by Chris Pinkham and initially Amazon were quite secretive about it. """The designation "skunk works" or "skunkworks" is widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, with the task of working on advanced or secret projects. """ https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-the-history-of-awss-ec2/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works#:~:text=The%20designation%20%22skunk%20works%22%20or,on%20advanced%20or%20secret%20projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works#:~:text=The%20desi....
- iso1210 6y agoWikipedia says Amazon EC2 was developed mostly by a team in Cape Town, South Africa led by Chris Pinkham. Pinkham provided the initial architecture guidance for EC2 and then built the team and led the development of the project along with Willem van Biljon. with links to a Register piece https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/25/nimbula_cloud_os/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/25/nimbula_cloud_os/ And https://web.archive.org/web/20100621120705/http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/2010/06/17/amazons-early-efforts-at-cloud-computing-partly-accidental https://web.archive.org/web/20100621120705/http://itknowledg...