After a project succeeds in a large company, people who were tangentially involved come out of the woodwork to claim credit. There is a natural human urge to debunk these claims, but often this just makes things worse if the credit-takers are politically astute.
A few things for context:
1) This came up b/c somebody else publicly described the author as the inventor of EC2, which created some unintended blowback;
2) The author is well-known in the ops community and still close to a number of people at Amazon, and has no personal or professional interest in hurting those relationships.
- I bet he feels some ownership, over the product.
- The 2nd option is this is a resume` play, but probably not likely.
either way great story; although short - good luck with your other endeavors