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I'd never really thought about "How did hyperscale cloud providers become cloud providers?" And it's surprisingly distinct.

AWS: Bezos API memo -> internal infra services that were external ready -> polishing and exposing those one-by-one

GCP: Internal architectural/technical excellence -> new org that attempted to productize v2.0 of those services

Azure: Believe it was mostly ground-up build as a new org/product?

(No idea where Oracle cloud came from, internally)



AWS was never an offshoot from Amazon.

http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo...


That's not true.

AWS started from a one pager that two employees in the Capetown office wrote (forget their names, it's been years) about the potential to sell compute as a service from the newly revamped Amazon.com website backend and servers.

Once the commercial viability was clear, Amazon.com created Amazon Web Services. The term 'offshoot' is perfectly reasonable.

This is from working at AWS circa 2013, which was just a few years after it started.


Again the link I posted was from Werner Vogels. The architecture that the CDO (Amazon Retail) uses is completely different than AWS.

Have you seen the difference between the architecture of CDO and AWS internally?




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