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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

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2006: Amazon spearheads the cloud initiative, drops EC2 and S3 into the market. 2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. Hadoop was developed in 2006. Amazon launches AWS (but no cloud solutions yet). The pain point?