Cloud and infrastructure as a service
Capital-heavy capacity resold by the hour. Carr saw it coming; the Amazon books show how it was actually built.
6 books · 2 people behind it
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- The Big SwitchNicholas G. Carr, 2008
- Behind the CloudMarc Benioff, Carlye Adler, 2009
- Working BackwardsColin Bryar, Bill Carr, 2021
The people behind it 2
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Founders 1
Journalists 1
Books 6
Nicholas G. Carr · 2008 · Computing as a utility; the argument that anticipated the cloud model.
Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler · 2009 · Salesforce's founder on inventing the SaaS sales and pricing model.
Brad Stone · 2021 · AWS and advertising as the profit engines behind the retail business.
Colin Bryar, Bill Carr · 2021 · Amazon insiders on the mechanisms, including how AWS was conceived.
Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne · 2019 · Microsoft's president on the politics and economics of running clouds.