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A bit, but hosting providers were around long before AWS. You could do multi-tenant web / database deployments in the 90s.

• jasode 6y ago
  >, but hosting providers were around long before AWS. Yes but AWS exposed a programmable web api to provision servers and disk. You download an SDK and get a AWS developer key and then could create S3 buckets for storage and EC2 instances. Yes, hosting datacenters like Rackspace in 2003 existed but you had to talk to a human or send an email to provision compute resources. There wasn't a "Rackspace web SDK". The Amazon AWS that made "cloud" more acceptable was such a paradigm shift that both Google and Microsoft didn't have a competitive offerings of GCP & Azure for more than a year. AWS has kept its lead from the very beginning.
  • tootie 6y ago
    And the console. They set the standard for self-service. It's the most sophisticated enterprise software platform in the world and you can bootstrap without talking to a salesperson. That was pretty revolutionary.
  • knowaveragejoe 6y ago
    Their software defined networking & virtualization was a big deal too. Many of the primitives of on-prem or "LAN" networking were translated into the cloud.
  • gavin_gee 6y ago
    thats not 100% true. it wasnt SDK driven but it was console driven. no need to talk to people back in the days of the hosting market.