How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born

Re:How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born by wmf on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @02:39PM (#466335)

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.

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Re:How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born by ooorrr on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @04:18PM (#466516)

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.

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Re:How Amazon's EC2 Service Was Born by redorb on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:04PM (#466612)

Thanks for the context; it helps a lot to know that this fellow was trying to deflect credit where it was due; Not sneak some where it wasn't.

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