Cloud computing (AWS S3 and EC2)
Computación en la nube (Amazon Web Services S3 y EC2)
- Date
- 2006 · confidence high
- Place
- Amazon, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Credited to
- Amazon (Andy Jassy, Werner Vogels, Chris Pinkham, Benjamin Black)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Renting of storage and virtual servers by usage over the internet. It removed the need to buy infrastructure to launch digital services.
What it led to
- Low-capital startups (Netflix, Airbnb and Uber run on the cloud)
- The concentration of the world's infrastructure among three hyperscalers and sovereign dependency
- The training of AI models on rented clusters