This in a sense was a cloud application. There was no software you installed. You didn't have to have an account if you didn't want one and it was directly linked to cloud servers. Amazon provides the resources so that an application can handle Justin Bieber or election night levels of activity but it doesn't charge when these extra resources aren't being used.
Twitter employee #7 tells us what happened when Justin Bieber joined twitter in 2009. An Amazon Data scientist, explains how the cloud is changing our relationship with technology, Obama’s CTO Harper Reed explains why the cloud is awesome + we tour Parse, a hot hot hot (BaaS). But can your host get inside the cloud?
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