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AWS was never an intention from the start. Some Amazonian in the mid 2000s saw the opportunity, wrote a three-pager about it, Jeff Bezos agreed, and now we hav
by joncrane 9y ago
AWS was never an intention from the start. Some Amazonian in the mid 2000s saw the opportunity, wrote a three-pager about it, Jeff Bezos agreed, and now we have AWS.
- drewmate 9y agoI’d be interested in reading more about this. That employee changed Amazon’s future (and indeed the future of computing in general) immensely. I hope he/she was fairly compensated and relaxing on a beach far from Seattle now.
- philk10 9y agoTry this blog post - http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
- pmiller2 9y agoI wonder what the actual likelihood of that is. The stock has increased at least 20x since 2008, so, assuming the employee had options beginning in 2004, they could have made a decent amount of money off that.
- scarface74 9y agoHere you can find an interview of the Amazon CTO back in 2006. http://www.se-radio.net/2006/12/episode-40-interview-werner-vogels/ http://www.se-radio.net/2006/12/episode-40-interview-werner-...