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I agree. Maybe Amazon sold it really well, but as far as I can remember, the response almost universally (including in financial circles) was that this was a gr

I agree. Maybe Amazon sold it really well, but as far as I can remember, the response almost universally (including in financial circles) was that this was a great idea since it allowed them to leverage idle resources they needed to build out to handle peak loads (such as during the holiday season).

canes123456 10y ago
That never made sense. What happened during holiday season? Everyone on AWS was put on hold?
- gregmac 10y ago
  Amazon.com, even at its peak computing needs, is now a drop in the bucket. Three years ago, in 2014, AWS was adding the equivalent hardware every day of what ran Amazon.com in 2004, when it was only a $700-million company. [1] [1] https://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-scale-aws/ https://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-...
- umanwizard 10y ago
  I don't know for sure but I'm guessing spot pricing for instances went way up.