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

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...