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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by mr_toad on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:20PM (#26007743)
There were data centres before Amazon, but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference.
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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by progval on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:04AM (#26011888)
> but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference.

I believe Grid5000 did it before Amazon [1].

It opened in 2005 and allowed users to automatically book hardware (with OAR [2]) and install their own images (with Kadeploy) on dedicated hardware.

[1]: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/History [2]: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Reserving_resource...

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by Aperocky on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:51PM (#26009257)
This. No one before used RPC calls to provision actual infrastructure as a public business.
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