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Cloud Computing
Amazon's S3 and EC2 (2006) rent storage and computing by the hour from huge shared data centres.
Open in the interactive tree →Cloud services turned computers into a utility that anyone can scale up in minutes. The large data centres built for the cloud are also what AI training later ran on.
Prerequisites
- Hard Disk Drive1956
- Fibre Submarine Cables1988Global cloud services depend on intercontinental fibre cables for their traffic
- Open Source & Linux1991
- World Wide Web1991
Unlocks
- AI Accelerators & Data Centers2026Hyperscale cloud data centres are the base of AI computing
- Avoiding a Digital Dark Ageopen