Wikipedia says Amazon EC2 was developed mostly by a team in Cape Town, South Africa led by Chris Pinkham. Pinkham provided the initial architecture guidance fo

Wikipedia 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...