Do you know who invented cloud computing?

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2 min readFeb 4, 2021

When it comes to the origin of cloud computing, it is generally believed that Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is the first enthusiast of the concept of cloud computing.

On August 9, 2006, at the Search Engine Conference (SES San Jose 2006), he proposed the concept of “Cloud Computing”. Some people also believe that Amazon, the leader of the cloud computing market today, officially launched its own Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service in March 2006. This is in fact The pioneer of cloud computing.

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Public computing-the budding of cloud computing theory

Everyone should remember that our computer general education textbook said that the first electronic computer in the world was ENIAC (ENIAC) .In fact, strictly speaking, ENIAC can only be regarded as the second electronic computer in the world. Before it, there was a computer named Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or ABC computer for short. But this ABC computer is not programmable, so ENIAC is the first general-purpose electronic computer. EC2 selector

The emergence of ENIAC announced the beginning of the computing era. Since then, mankind has opened the door to the computer world. AWS ec2 distance-instance

Early computers like ENIAC were huge, expensive, and limited in computing power. Most importantly, it lacks multi-user capabilities and can only be occupied by one person at a time. If everyone wants to use it, they can only queue up.

In 1955, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of John McCarthy, professor (John McCarthy) proposed time-sharing (sharing) technology concepts, hoping to meet the demands of people while using a computer.

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