The beta launched 15 years ago this week 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. The EC in EC2 stands for Elastic Compute, and that name was chosen deliberately…. Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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