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This evolution has continued even after the word was crowned. The earliest offerings were just dozens of thin virtual machines running on fat servers. You could pretend to be root even though your instance was a tiny fraction of the machine. Then FTP servers were rebranded as buckets and dropboxes. Since then, services have exploded and the letters “AAS” have become the favourite suffix for acronym creators.
The evolution continues and every new development prompts cloud users to rethink what they want to rent and what they expect to get for their money. Many of these are rediscovered ideas that have been repackaged and rehyped. Many are clever solutions that solve the problems created by the last generation of solutions. All of them give us a chance to look at what we’re building and, in the words of the poet, “make it new again.”
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