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At the time Amazon was building out their merchant portal as a white-label-ish service for other large retailers to sell products online. The 'customers' in the
by morelisp 7y ago
At the time Amazon was building out their merchant portal as a white-label-ish service for other large retailers to sell products online. The 'customers' in the memo would be other merchants, and the early AWS offering (e.g. SQS) reflect this. "Elastic" clouds weren't really on the menu yet but obviously part of the point is that you can offer it to customers regardless of where the architectural fad goes.
- function_seven 7y agoI remember the early days of target.com and (I think?) toysrus.com being thinly skinned versions of Amazon.
- gowld 7y agoYep. Also one of the large British retailers and a few others.
- ineedasername 7y agoYes, if I remember correctly even Borders Books got in on the action there.