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They are about as different as running an online book store is to running one of the largest clouds on earth.
by dsmithatx 9y ago
They are about as different as running an online book store is to running one of the largest clouds on earth.
- steego 9y agoI don't care to argue whether this is true or not, but I will highlight that the cloud business was nascent enough that Amazon had the opportunity to define it and they were able to bootstrap quickly because running a large data center was already part of their core competency. Granted, building a global scale infrastructure was an amazing accomplishment, but you have to concede it's easier when you're starting with a team who already knows something about the business.