4 ms·

Is there a source for this? I'm genuinely curious. The "AWS started as Amazon's extra capacity" is such a compelling story.

• joncrane 8y ago
  It wasn't extra capacity so much as making some of the internal tools publicly available, and it took off. I believe SQS was the first publicly available service. EC2 was obviously the tipping point and that was a couple of years later.
  • VectorLock 8y ago
    The story I always heard was they had a ton of extra capacity that was very seasonal and then someone came up with the great idea to sell that extra capacity in the off season. SQS as the first publicly available service sounds weird to me but I don't have any sources to cite otherwise. Edit: Wikipedia says SQS was the first service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#History
  • hooch 8y ago
    I recall S3 being the first product announcement, with no real mention of what was yet to come.
    • jedberg 8y ago
      SQS came before S3.
• withhighprod 8y ago
  running out of IP is