Cloud Computing: Achievements
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Virtual capacity without owning each machine
Established · 25 August 2006
The EC2 beta announcement described creating virtual CPUs from machine images and adjusting resources for changing workloads. This made remote infrastructure programmability concrete. Its historical hardware and pricing details are not specifications or prices for today’s service.
Amazon EC2 Beta announcement — AWS · Source date: 2006-08-25 · Checked
A shared language for service models
Established · September 2011
NIST SP 800-145 provided a widely referenced definition with five essential characteristics, three service models and four deployment models. It is a conceptual framework; using the terminology does not prove that a service meets a particular reliability or security requirement.
SP 800-145: The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing — NIST · Source date: 2011-09 · Checked
Open container orchestration reaches 1.0
Established · 21 July 2015
Kubernetes 1.0 followed the project’s public beginnings in June 2014. Its contributor history documents an open orchestration ecosystem around managing container workloads. Orchestration helps coordinate applications; it does not remove the need to design those applications for failure.
10 Years of Kubernetes: project and 1.0 history — Kubernetes contributors · Source date: 2024-06-06 · Checked