2006

This year in many ways is one of the more significant events that let to cloud computing.

  • In March of 2006, Twitter was launched.
  • On March 9th, 2006, the first version of Google Docs was released.
  • In 2006, Intel and AMD introduced limited hardware virtualization support.
  • In November of 2006, Windows Vista was released.
  • In November of 2006, In November 2006, Google acquires YouTube.
  • In 2006, SELinux was present in the 2.6.24 version of the Linux kernel.
  • On December 11th, 2006, Java SE 6 was released.
  • On March 14th, 2006, AWS S3 was first released to the general public
  • On August 25th, 2006, AWS EC2, VPC was first released to the general public.