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I know why; I was there! (first AWS employee in EU, 2008, stayed there until 2014). Back then, using traditional IT providers or internal IT services, you need
by simonebrunozzi 5y ago
I know why; I was there! (first AWS employee in EU, 2008, stayed there until 2014).
Back then, using traditional IT providers or internal IT services, you needed weeks, paperwork, etc, to get any storage or compute.
Then AWS arrives, and you could have infinite storage, or tens of EC2 instances, within a few minutes. And pay with a freaking credit card!
It didn't matter that AWS' performance was abysmal at the time. Or that AWS was expensive. AWS solved a huge pain point for millions of people, and that's why it became a market leader.
Price is not the only thing that matters.
- deanCommie 5y agoAll that is true, but when it comes to S3, price was absolutely part of the magic. S3 was orders of magnitude cheaper than anything comparable at the time.
- tatersolid 5y ago> S3 was orders of magnitude cheaper than anything comparable at the time. Cheaper for cold storage. For anything that requires high IOPS or egress trafic S3 has always been very expensive.
- ignoramous 5y ago> Price is not the only thing that matters Price matters when all of your other advantages have been eroded away. > I know why; I was there! (first AWS employee in EU, 2008, stayed there until 2014). Btw, another of your claim-to-fame is that the current Amazon CEO follows you on twitter, one among the 300 odd accounts :)
- simonebrunozzi 5y agoOh yes, I was lucky enough to interact with Andy several times. To be honest, him following me is 1% merit and 99% random luck :)