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Re:Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox by scarface74 on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:47AM (#23651915)
The underlying technology for AWS was developed internally and it was not customer facing at first.

Will this myth ever die?

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-...

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Re:Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox by justicezyx on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:20PM (#23654430)
I think the internal tech is definitely part of original AWS, but of course, quickly it grows beyond that, and the majority of aws has no relevance with other Amazon tech. But the statement is definitely right at the beginning.

Plus, AWS no longer use such narrative anyway.

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Re:Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox by scarface74 on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:34PM (#23654612)
No it never was. AWS was always built from the ground up to be an external service. A number of publicly available interviews say the same thing.

https://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcrof...

Edit: that’s not the right podcast. This was before he went to AWS. I can’t for the life of me find the interview.

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Re:Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox by Tempest1981 on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:22PM (#23655212)
Did Amazon internally dog-food it before it went public? Maybe that's the confusion.
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Re:Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox by scarface74 on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:33PM (#23655320)
I can’t speak for how it worked in the past, but AWS and Amazon are run as two separate companies. AWS treats Amazon Retail just like any other customer and Amazon treats AWS like a third party vendor as far as choosing whether to adopt an AWS technology.

But if someone with deeper insight than someone who has been working at Amazon/AWS for -3 days (I start Monday), I’m glad to be proven wrong.

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