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> Google also invented "cloud" Wait what? Because I'm pretty sure aws predates gcp by quite a few years. And if you mean the marketing word "cloud", I think th

> Google also invented "cloud" Wait what? Because I'm pretty sure aws predates gcp by quite a few years. And if you mean the marketing word "cloud", I think that's false as well. Edit: ec2 has been around since 2006

sitkack 3y ago
Google's internal machine provisioning model was already automated and accessible via an API, it would have been recognizable as a "cloud", but it was internal only. The kernel changes that enabled OpenVZ and Docker were done by Google engineers. In the same way OpenAI shipped a business on transfomers (invented by Google). Google invents stuff, but then is last to its own party. Looks like GCP has existed since 2008, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...
- adrr 3y ago
  They are the xerox parc of the 2000s.
  - chasd00 3y ago
    Or the Ramones of the 70s. They play a show and everyone in the audience goes home and starts a punk band and becomes wildly more successful (across multiple definitions of “success”).