Amazon officially launched AWS, introducing consumer cloud infrastructure through Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3). This structural shift allowed machine learning researchers to rent massive scalable virtual computing pipelines over the internet, eliminating the need for expensive in-house physical server hardware.
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