Computing · Recorded milestone
Cloud computing
Recorded year2006
Amazon Web Services rents computing and storage on demand.
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Led to
- Live shared documentsRecorded · 2006enables
- Streaming TV stickRecorded · 2007enables
- Real-time ad auctionsRecorded · 2009enables
- Voice control on phonesRecorded · 2009requires
- Biometric national IDRecorded · 2010enables
- Cloud game streamingRecorded · 2010enables
- Massive open online coursesRecorded · 2012enables
- AI-managed water networksRecorded · 2013enables
- Cloud video meetingsRecorded · 2013enables
- Satellite deforestation trackingRecorded · 2013enables
- Smart video doorbellRecorded · 2013enables
- Software containersRecorded · 2013enables
- Cloud labsRecorded · 2014enables
- Zero-trust networksRecorded · 2014enables
- Community chat serversRecorded · 2015enables
- Smart speakerRecorded · 2015enables
- Algorithmic short-video feedRecorded · 2016requires
- Collaborative design in the browserRecorded · 2016enables
- AI scene descriptionRecorded · 2017requires
- AI-run cooling plantsRecorded · 2018enables
- Generative design softwareRecorded · 2018enables
- Genomic pandemic surveillanceRecorded · 2020enables
- Remote school at global scaleRecorded · 2020enables
- AI camera glassesRecorded · 2021requires
- AI coding assistantsRecorded · 2021requires
- AI chat assistantsRecorded · 2022enables
- Generative image modelsRecorded · 2022requires
- PasskeysRecorded · 2022requires
- AI memory of your lifeRecorded · 2024enables
- AI supercomputer campusesRecorded · 2024enables
- AI video generationRecorded · 2024requires
- Computing on encrypted dataRecorded · 2024enables
- AI model of Earth's surfaceRecorded · 2025requires
- Vera Rubin ObservatoryRecorded · 2025enables
- Video ads made for each viewerForecast · ~2028requires
- Auditable multi-provider compute exchangeForecast · ~2032enables
- Leap seconds abolishedForecast · ~2035enables
- Everyday quantum cloudForecast · ~2045requires
- Cloud nationsForecast · ~2065requires
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.