{"id":15051,"date":"2016-07-03T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2016-07-03T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:30:38","slug":"how-aws-came-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/03\/how-aws-came-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How AWS Came to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/07\/02\/andy-jassys-brief-history-of-the-genesis-of-aws\/\">Ron Miller<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12022915\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/07\/02\/andy-jassys-brief-history-of-the-genesis-of-aws\/\"><p>What you may not know is that the roots for the idea of AWS go back to the 2000 timeframe when Amazon was a far different company than it is today &mdash; simply an e-commerce company struggling with scale problems. Those issues forced the company to build some solid internal systems to deal with the hyper growth it was experiencing &mdash; and that laid the foundation for what would become AWS.<\/p><p>Speaking recently <a href=\"https:\/\/live.awsevents.com\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdGak1EVTNaRGs0TmpOaiIsInQiOiJQK2hCZG1qd1h6bkxZV2YxUGtYTkx5N2N2SEpjN3MyRUN4T2dqeFk0ZUJMVGJoWVFGUEdaQTRKMnlcLytlQzNiT2xMNHBVTGNubUFVSlllR1ZqeGU4bytUT0UybHJ5ZlB0RFwveWpSZXpyc044PSJ9\">at an event in Washington, DC<\/a>, AWS CEO Andy Jassy, who has been there from the beginning, explained how these core systems developed out of need over a three-year period beginning in 2000, and, before they knew it, without any real planning, they had the makings of a business that would become AWS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/apievangelist.com\/2012\/01\/12\/the-secret-to-amazons-success-internal-apis\/\">The Secret to Amazon&rsquo;s Success: Internal APIs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/chitchcock\/1281611\">Steve Yegge&rsquo;s Google Platforms Rant<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Miller (Hacker News): What you may not know is that the roots for the idea of AWS go back to the 2000 timeframe when Amazon was a far different company than it is today &mdash; simply an e-commerce company struggling with scale problems. Those issues forced the company to build some solid internal systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,672,35,295,601],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-cloud","tag-history","tag-jeff-bezos"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15052,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}