From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

A brief history of the cloud

A brief history of the cloud - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts

Start my 1-month free trial

A brief history of the cloud

“

- [Instructor] How did the idea of cloud computing develop? To start from the beginning we have to go all the way back to the 1950s with the invention of mainframe computing. Mainframe computing is the concept of having a central computer accessed by numerous user devices. The central computer which had all the compute capabilities was called the mainframe computer. All the user devices which sent requests out to the mainframe computer were called dumb terminals. These days if you peek into a college computer lab there are computers at every desk fully independent from the ones around it. Back in the '50s however, computers were extremely expensive to buy and maintain. So instead of placing one at every seat organizations would buy one mainframe computer and allow the dumb terminals to share its compute resources. In the '70s the concept of virtual machines emerged. Virtual machines are multiple complete operating systems that quote unquote live in a single piece of hardware. For…

Contents