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

BizAcuity

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. Microsoft starts to offer Azure IoT Central and IoT Edge.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.