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What makes you say that? The post linked to above suggests that's exactly how AWS was started. Is it no longer the case? https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/post

What makes you say that? The post linked to above suggests that's exactly how AWS was started. Is it no longer the case? https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

serge2k 10y ago
THe culture certainly supports it. Wasn't trying to take anything away, it's just a separate product is all I meant. Their tagline has always kinda been "Run on the same platform as amazon.com!"
- beastcoast 10y ago
  My understanding is that AWS was built from the ground up and is not a fork of the actual code that runs Amazon. This is apparent in that Amazon has internal competitors to DynamoDB and SWF. I'm sure there are other examples. To add to that, many of the older backend systems are still running Oracle, although they are now pushing to migrate to noSQL solutions. Dogfooding is generally encouraged but not required internally.
  - discodave 10y ago
    Bingo, also lots of examples of teams trying to build things for internal Amazon that will then be "easily" externalized as AWS services... and failing.
    - beastcoast 10y ago
      I've seen that situation exactly.. Large product with SVP support that gets built for AWS, (nearly) launched and then shot down by Jeff himself :)