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on a single server that was also hosting other Web sites. This saved you from

having to set up infrastructure, but it was still relatively expensive.

Around 2005/2006, a number of companies, Amazon being the best

example, started offering a new kind of hosting service. Instead of using

individual physical computers or directories on a shared host, Amazon

discovered it could use large groups of virtualized servers combined with a

powerful front end to enable customers to simply click and start the server

they wanted. Cloud computing was born.

When we talk about the “cloud,” we’re talking not just about friendly filestorage

services like Dropbox or Google Drive, but also about interfaces to a

vast array of on-demand computing resources sold by Amazon (see Figure

22-27), Microsoft, and many other companies over the open Internet. The

technology at the heart of these innovative services is virtualization.

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