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It amazes me how quickly AWS iterates and adds new features. Also, this is just what I needed for a site I am building (I was trying to figure out which third-p
by d_r 16y ago
It amazes me how quickly AWS iterates and adds new features. Also, this is just what I needed for a site I am building (I was trying to figure out which third-party mail provider to use.)
- latortuga 16y agoOne of my coworkers remarked that it's amazing how Amazon just takes their existing infrastructure and repackages it to be sold as a service. When you look at it as something that they already had built for themselves, while still being awesome, it helps keep perspective.
- smokinn 16y agoThat's not how AWS works at all. Werner Vogels (Amazon's CTO) explains it well here: http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cloud-computing-business http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo... And the history is well presented here: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/amazons-early-efforts-at-cloud-computing-partly-accidental/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/am... The tldr; is basically that AWS was a skunkworks project within Amazon with its own completely separate infrastructure. Its success is mostly independent from Amazon.com's success. (Amazon.com funded it but mostly left it alone until it hit it big.) As Vogels points out, within 2 months of launch AWS would already have surpassed Amazon's excess capacity. I imagine now with some of the huge customers such as Netflix and NYT on AWS the AWS traffic may dwarf Amazon.com's.