AWS - What a Disruptive Innovation

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When S3 launched, a credit card was all that was needed to provision storage. There was no required proposal for financial approval. Once development was complete, I was still storing all the test data in S3. The following month, I got a bill for $0.07. So no joke, David, every month I get a bill from AWS for like $0.71 and I have no idea what old project it was for. But it's one of these things where it's priced so dynamically. They actually have pretty good margins on S3 and on bandwidth and some of these things.

So, how DID an online book retailer end up building the infrastructure layer that powers the entire internet? (Or at least 39% of it, per latest market share data.) While many myths, legends, and some downright falsehoods exist, the real answer to that question deserves a full Acquired episode of its very own. So here it is: the story of Amazon Web Services. Who’s got the truth? Tune in and find out. :)

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