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Way back when AWS EC2 was announced by Jeff Bezos. He showed a graph where a startup needed to scale fast because startup's launch went viral and they were able

by mtmail 4y ago

Way back when AWS EC2 was announced by Jeff Bezos. He showed a graph where a startup needed to scale fast because startup's launch went viral and they were able to add more power (machines, cpu etc) quick. OK, nice. But then the first launch hype was over and EC2 allowed them to scale down equally fast to safe money. That was the killer feature for me: servers rented by the hour.

ignoramous 4y ago
Reminds me of this Jeff Bezos interview from 2006 where he talks about S3 and goes, "It is hard to come up with a web application that doesn't need to remember things". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQt0hF8jOo&t=355 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQt0hF8jOo&t=355
swyx 4y ago
if anyone could find this graph/talk, i would very much appreciate it!
- ignoramous 4y ago
  May be this one where Bezos speaks about Animoto at Startup School 2008: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uIc-VB-ke9o https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uIc-VB-ke9o Here's the full talk (which was titled, AWS: We make electricity, so you don't have to): https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6nKfFHuouzA https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6nKfFHuouzA
  - swyx 4y ago
    ahh brilliant! I was just linking off to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/we_build_muck_s/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/we_build_muck_s/ which is Jeff Barr's recap of Bezos' pitch at the time
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