AWS 15th anniversary, 5 results

The earliest AWS customers who helped build the cloud "The meeting was somewhere in Seattle," said Don Alvarez. "I don't remember which building exactly, but I do remember precisely how I felt walking out afterwards. My head was exploding. I couldn't believe the incredible power Amazon had just put at m
The deceptively simple origins of AWS Simple. The name of the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) service, Amazon S3, begins with that word: Simple Storage Service."It's ironic because what we were trying to do, store data on the internet—and do it really, really well—was not so simple," sai
Tough customers: When startups and Amazon Web Services met Wind back 15 years to the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the startup landscape was dramatically different, said Matt McIlwain, managing director of Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group. Startups are never easy, but if you were building a tec
Startups whose success nearly ruined them—but didn’t Growing up in Seattle in the early 1990s, Brad Jefferson, co-founder of Animoto—a platform designed to help anyone, anywhere, to create customized, professional videos online—remembers a distinct feeling of possibility in the air. “We were surrounded
Firing up cloud machines like ‘elves on roller skates’ There is a saying among South Africans that boils down to this: A farmer makes a plan."It's an expression everybody knows and kind of lives by," said James Greenfield, VP of software engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Cape Town, South Africa

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