socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. Enterprise are quite constrained from the resource point of view, and they really don''t have the cycles to understand OpenStack at a deep level. That is on premise, off premise, fully managed, and do-it-yourself. That will remain in-perpetuity.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
.&# What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.
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