>, but hosting providers were around long before AWS.
Yes but AWS exposed a programmable web api to provision servers and disk. You download an SDK and get a AWS developer key and then could create S3 buckets for storage and EC2 instances.
Yes, hosting datacenters like Rackspace in 2003 existed but you had to talk to a human or send an email to provision compute resources. There wasn't a "Rackspace web SDK".
The Amazon AWS that made "cloud" more acceptable was such a paradigm shift that both Google and Microsoft didn't have a competitive offerings of GCP & Azure for more than a year. AWS has kept its lead from the very beginning.
And the console. They set the standard for self-service. It's the most sophisticated enterprise software platform in the world and you can bootstrap without talking to a salesperson. That was pretty revolutionary.
Their software defined networking & virtualization was a big deal too. Many of the primitives of on-prem or "LAN" networking were translated into the cloud.
Yes but AWS exposed a programmable web api to provision servers and disk. You download an SDK and get a AWS developer key and then could create S3 buckets for storage and EC2 instances.
Yes, hosting datacenters like Rackspace in 2003 existed but you had to talk to a human or send an email to provision compute resources. There wasn't a "Rackspace web SDK".
The Amazon AWS that made "cloud" more acceptable was such a paradigm shift that both Google and Microsoft didn't have a competitive offerings of GCP & Azure for more than a year. AWS has kept its lead from the very beginning.