When Amazon began offering cheap pay-as-you-go access to computing resources in the cloud to the public, it broke new ground. Independent developers, small businesses and individual departments of large businesses leaped at the chance to work on projects while keeping infrastructure costs down. Users would plunk down their credit cards, get access to whatever infrastructure they required in whatever amounts needed, and stop paying once they’d completed their projects and no longer needed the infrastructure.
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Privacy in the Public Cloud: Q&A With Terremark Exec Jason Lochhead
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 12, 2009 06:00 AMWhen Amazon began offering cheap pay-as-you-go access to computing resources in the cloud to the public, it broke new ground. Independent developers, small businesses and individual departments of large businesses leaped at the chance to work on projects while keeping infrastructure costs down. Users would plunk down their credit cards, get access to whatever infrastructure they required in whatever amounts needed, and stop paying once they’d completed their projects and no longer needed the infrastructure.