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Google were pioneers to cloud computing How so? Amazon were the first with S3 and EC2 including API driven control.
by commandersaki 2y ago
Google were pioneers to cloud computing
How so? Amazon were the first with S3 and EC2 including API driven control.
- foobarian 2y agoMaybe for public services, but Google did the "cattle not pets" thing with custom Frankensteined beige boxes starting really early on
- commandersaki 2y agoModern cloud computing is more than just having a scalable infrastructure of servers, it was a paradigm shift to having elastic demand, utility style pricing, being completely API driven, etc. Amazon were not only the first to market but pioneers in this space. Nothing came close at that time.
- phreeza 2y agoAWS was the first to sell it, but Google had something that could be called cloud computing (Borg) before that.
- nostrebored 2y agoWhat do you think AWS decided to sell? Both companies had a significant interest in making infrastructure easy to create and scale.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoAWS had a cleaner host-guest abstraction (the VM) that makes it easier to reason about security, and likely had a much bigger gap between their own usage peaks and troughs.
- mianos 2y agoYep. Google offered app engine which was good for fairly stateless simple apps in an old limited version of python, like a photo gallery or email client. For anything else is waa dismal. Amazon offered VMs. Useful stuff for a lot more platforms.