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There were data centres before Amazon, but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference.
by mr_toad 6y ago
There were data centres before Amazon, but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference.
- Aperocky 6y agoThis. No one before used RPC calls to provision actual infrastructure as a public business.
- progval 6y ago> but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference. I believe Grid5000 did it before Amazon [1]. It opened in 2005 and allowed users to automatically book hardware (with OAR [2]) and install their own images (with Kadeploy) on dedicated hardware. [1]: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/History https://www.grid5000.fr/w/History [2]: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Reserving_resources_with_OAR:_the_basics https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Reserving_resource...