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Amazon Web Services

Acquired

CHAPTER

AWS - What a Disruptive Innovation

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.

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