Analysis of the Origin of Cloud Computing and Its Commercial Development

The term cloud computing came as early as August 9, 2006, when Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, presented the concept of "cloud computing" for the first time at a search engine conference. Cloud computing so far has not got a generally accepted definition. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST defines cloud computing as such: Cloud computing is a payment-per-usage model that provides available, convenient, on-demand network access using configurable computing resources Shared pool, shared pool of resources including the network, servers, storage, application software, services, these resources can be quickly provided to customers through the cloud computing platform, with little management effort invested or service providers with very little Interaction. This definition is relatively appropriate, with the continuous evolution of cloud computing technology, our understanding of cloud computing is also constantly deepening, the definition of cloud computing in the future will be more stringent.

Cloud computing is a product of the development of traditional computer technologies such as distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing, multi-core computing, network storage, virtualization and load balancing to a certain stage and the integration and development of Internet technologies. Its purpose is to integrate countless nodes (that is, computing entities) into a "supercomputer" system with powerful computing capabilities through the Internet, and use IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service, Platform as a service), SaaS (software as a service) and other business models, to provide powerful computing power to end users. Cloud computing can reduce the processing load on the user terminal by continuously improving the processing power of the cloud computing platform so that the user terminal can be simplified into a low-profile computing terminal, enabling the user to enjoy the powerful computing power of using the cloud computing platform on demand.

Cloud computing is known as the fourth revolution in the IT industry following the growth of large computers, personal computers and the Internet. It not only changes the mode of network applications, but also drives the strong growth of many industries such as IT, Internet of Things, and e-commerce The overall upgrading of the information industry. It is estimated that the next ten years will be the era of cloud computing. More and more various information systems and information terminals will rely on the cloud computing platform, and more and more R & D and business processes will rely on the cloud computing platform to support them.

Although the first cloud computing is advocated by Google, but the real cloud computing for large-scale commercial company devaluation of the Amazon. Because before Google put forward the concept of cloud computing, in 2002, Amazon launched the Amazon Web Service service product, the famous AWS business. Subsequently, Amazon's cloud computing research and development and commercial applications has been ongoing. By 2006, Google first proposed the concept of cloud computing, Amazon found that cloud computing and their own set of technical architecture is very consistent, homeopathic Amazon cloud computing. Subsequently, Amazon's cloud business revenue year after year hit a new high, becoming the industry leader. Amazon's cloud computing service products have also become the object of other cloud computing service providers. Amazon offers cloud computing services include:

1. Elastic Computing Cloud EC2

2 simple storage service S3

3 simple database service SimpleDB

4 simple queue service SQS