Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by biztos on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:30PM (#26007875)

Does AWS have a Sears-type analogue or was that a new concept?

Just curious, no agenda, I grew up on the Sears Catalogue.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:33PM (#26007924)

No, AWS was definitely not part of Jeff's early vision. And as many people have said, major credit to Jassy for making it what it is today.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by TuringNYC on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:16PM (#26008408)

How early do you mean by early? I remember Amazon at campus recruiting (Cornell, 2000) describing something akin to AWS and LoudCloud came up. I asked what business a bookstore had to do with outsourced computing and recall a fair bit of vision even at the time.

In light of what we now know, I’m the only one who didn’t have sufficient vision...for not pursuing that job opportunity more seriously.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:04PM (#26008850)

I was at amazon from 1994-1996. That's what I mean by "early".

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by nly on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:38AM (#26012068)

Apologies if this question is a bit in the nose, but why did you leave?

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by biztos on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:35PM (#26007954)

Thanks, appreciate the reply from an authoritative voice.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by raverbashing on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:36AM (#26011181)

Well the way they're adding services I suppose they could make a "paper" version of it soon.

Would be a fun conceptual project

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