Tag: Infrastructure as a Service
The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees
Today, Amazon Web Services is a mainstay in the cloud infrastructure services market, a $60 billion juggernaut of a business. But in 2008, it was still new, working to keep its head above water and handle growing demand for its cloud servers. In fact, 15 years ago last week, the…
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How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing
The beta launched 15 years ago this week Ron Miller 18 hours Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a service, is a staple of how…
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Is there still room in the cloud-security market?
Kelley Mak Contributor Kelley Mak is a principal at Work-Bench, where he focuses on early-stage enterprise technology investments in areas including security, cloud and developer tools. While the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided for businesses, one of its main legacies is how it ushered in a tidal…
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