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Amazon Web Services

Acquired

CHAPTER

AWS Origin Story - The Dissenting Narrative

In 2003, a network engineer at Amazon named Benjamin Black is working on the IT architecture transition that we talked about. He's working with Chris Pinkham, who in fact oversees all of network engineering within IT at Amazon. The two of them write a six pager about how they actually are going to restructure the network engineering part of the IT architecture. They then showed this to Jeff Bezos, the proposal made its way to Jeff Bezos and he greenlit their project.

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