Amazon first commercial cloud

Amazon launched the first commercial cloud – the Elastic Computer Cloud ( EC2 ) in 2006 . This was closely followed in 2008 by Google who introduced radical pricing models with freeentry-level plans and low-cost computing and storage services with its Google App .

Microsoft Azure

Software giant Microsoft entered the cloud market with Azure in 2010 , which supports streamlined development of web and mobile apps , to support a rapidly growing mobile industry .

Cloud adoption takes off

A Spiceworks survey noted a significant 71 % increase over the previous year in cloud adoption for SMBs , with file sharing ( 52 %) and hosted email ( 42 %) two of the top services used .

cybermagazine . com 15