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It's even more impressive when you know Amazon started AWS to take advantage of excess capacity they had during the off-season when they weren't dealing with th
by ANH 16y ago
It's even more impressive when you know Amazon started AWS to take advantage of excess capacity they had during the off-season when they weren't dealing with the crush of holiday orders.
- nivertech 16y agoThis is just urban myth, according to Werner Vogels.
- ANH 16y agoWell, the Amazon Senior VP of International Retail said this was the case in his talk for the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership series. So, seems there's some dispute within the company. But I suppose I should take Werner's word for it since he's the CTO.
- randybias 16y agoIt was premeditated and planned using all new capacity. I chatted with Chris Pinkham, who architected and was VP of Engineering for EC2. I also verified with Chris Brown, who was development lead for EC2 and Ben Black who was leading networking.
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