> 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 u

> 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...