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How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing


How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing

August 31, 2021 at 7:38 AM

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 businesses use computing, but at that moment it wasn’t a well known or widely understood concept.

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