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It would be a cool story if it were true, but in fact AWS existed before Amazon was using it internally. They were selling their ability to run large datacenter
by ksenzee 11y ago
It would be a cool story if it were true, but in fact AWS existed before Amazon was using it internally. They were selling their ability to run large datacenters, not their existing spare capacity.
- andreyf 11y agoSource? I'd also heard the "AWS was Amazon's extra capacity since they only use it all on black Friday" story.
- signifiers 11y agoIt's a common misconception. Chris Pinkham and Ben Black created it, and it never had anything to do with excess capacity. http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html