It is perhaps not readily apparent how an online retailer selling books and CDs came to give birth to the cloud computing industry. In previous chapters, you learned how several individuals and technology companies had hinted at cloud computing and built different pieces of it. Some even tried to market it, but it was not until Amazon put it all together and showed the vision for how to execute it that cloud computing materialized as a viable business. The history of Amazon is in many ways the history of the birth of cloud computing.
The History of Amazon
The story of Amazon is the story of its CEO and ...