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It's 2006, you work for an 'online book store' that's experimenting with this cloud thing. Are you going to build a whole new network involving multi-million do

It's 2006, you work for an 'online book store' that's experimenting with this cloud thing. Are you going to build a whole new network involving multi-million dollar networking appliances?

jvolkman 5y ago
Developing EC2 did involve building a whole new network. It was a new service, built from the ground up to be a public product.
- discodave 5y ago
  Yes, but many services, including S3, SQS, and DynamoDB did not run on the EC2 network for most of their existence.
  - jvolkman 5y ago
    The netscalers were on prod after all.
- User23 5y ago
  Amazon was famously frugal during that era.
soheil 5y ago
No but one would hope 15 years and 1 trillion dollars later you would stop running it on the computer under your desk.
- discodave 5y ago
  Hehe true! But it's real hard to "move fast and not break things" when you're talking about millions of servers, exabytes of data, and tens of thousands of engineers.