Below 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 Afric

Below 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....