Cloud is Bigger Than the Internet - II
— Finally coming to grips with cloud means coming to grips with its high-level potential. This thing is bigger than the Internet, probably not bigger with fire, but maybe on a par with electricity.
surmises we have no "father or mother of cloud computing".
Depending a bit on how you define Cloud Computing, one might argue that we do have one: Jeff Bezos. People tell me he pushed hard on the project to make Amazon's infrastructure available as a service, which made Cloud Computing available to everyone with a credit card.
Sure Cloud Computing is built on virtualization and sure it uses technology honed during the waves around grid computing, utility computing, all the way back to "time sharing" on Mainframes. But all of that relates to Amazon Web Services as Arpa/Internet relates to the World Wide Web.
Of course Werner Vogels would be the person who made AWS happen technically, and I'm sure he didn't do it alone, so maybe pinpointing an exact person isn't so fruitful.
I do think that Jeff Bezos/Werner Vogels/Amazon are to Cloud Computing what Ford (Motor Company) was to the car industry.
