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AWS in the early days wasn’t that different than many other cloud providers of the day: you had Rackspace, Linode, Slicehost, etc. And then there’s the oversold

AWS in the early days wasn’t that different than many other cloud providers of the day: you had Rackspace, Linode, Slicehost, etc. And then there’s the oversold shared hosting... WeWork isn’t a brand new offering; Regus has been around for awhile. But it has mindshare and that has value. The question is will it be an AWS or pets.com. I won’t answer that for you, but I’m not putting my money into its IPO... ;)

smacktoward 7y ago
> AWS in the early days wasn’t that different than many other cloud providers of the day I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. The very first product launched under the AWS banner was S3, which was fundamentally different than anything else on the market. There were tons of companies offering shared and VPS hosting, but nobody offering an API-driven, usage-billed storage service like S3. A few months later they launched EC2, which was absolutely comparable to the various VPS hosts (if differentiated somewhat by its API-driven use model). But S3 was first, and it made a loud and clear statement that AWS was aiming to build something unlike anything else on the market at the time.
- tams 7y ago
  SQS was introduced before S3, but the analogy might still be valid.
- sturgill 7y ago
  S3 was (and is) amazing. But for me AWS as an infrastructure replacement started when EC2 was launched (at least in the context of the current discussion relative to WeWork).