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Liviu Lupei

An internal self-service cloud platform for a foreign government from the Middle East.
I even lived there for almost 2 years.
It included Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) options.
It was like building AWS EC2, including options to spin up a VM, Backups and Security Groups.
It was built by using OpenStack and other open source components.
Definitely one of the most complex projects I've worked on.
The reason why they wanted their own cloud solution instead of using an existing one was because they were a government and it was important to be in control of all the data.
I'm not sure AWS had an "on premises" version back then.