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Cloud Computing
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History and Evolution
The concept of utility computing dates back to the 1960s, notably with John McCarthy, who famously suggested that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility" [2]. However, practical implementation remained constrained by network bandwidth and virtualization technology limitations. The modern era of cloud computing began in the early 2000s. Early iterations focused on offering basic storage services, but the true inflection point arrived with the introduction of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) by providers seeking to maximiz…