Amazon launched its web services in 2006 and at some point between Justin Bieber joining Twitter and joining Instagram the cloud came into its own. A lot of people don't realize that with something like AWS you can effectively press a button and have everything you need to go live in minutes. Authoritarian governments may still have the power to turn off the internet but they can't keep their citizens from using the cloud because borders and nations are irrelevant to the cloud.
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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