Re:Steve's Google Platform rant
by nostrademons on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:49PM
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A startup doesn't have Amazon's network of datacenters or hardware resources.
(I've never worked at Amazon, but I'd also heard that AWS was a small skunkworks project that basically got cover from Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, who protected and nurtured it until it was too big to kill.)
(I've never worked at Amazon, but I'd also heard that AWS was a small skunkworks project that basically got cover from Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, who protected and nurtured it until it was too big to kill.)