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> Sun had all the right pieces and all the right engineers to create an offering akin to the AWS launch.

Yeah:

We had a project for utility computer with sun. We would rent a data center and they’d turn machines on for us on request.

5 months before EC2. I'm not sure what early EC2 was used for, but it looks like Sun Cloud was mostly batch jobs?

Yeah. You'd submit a script. Not designed for what made EC2 popular.