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b3k.us is a personal blog from an engineer involved with early Amazon EC2, covering cloud origins, SLAs and the GPL.
What HN saysHN commenters cite its EC2 Origins post to correct the myth that EC2 grew from excess capacity, crediting Pinkham and Black.
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hermanradtke · 2021-01-09
A different version of how EC2 came to be:
http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
philk10 · 2018-03-14
Try this blog post - http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
frostmatthew · 2016-03-11
> Guess what AWS was developed for.
EC2 being developed for internal use is more myth than fact. The original idea was for internal use, but didn't exist much beyond a "short paper"[1] until it was green-lighted (by Bezos) as an external/sellable service.
[1] http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
signifiers · 2015-06-03
It's a common misconception. Chris Pinkham and Ben Black created it, and it never had anything to do with excess capacity. http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
wave · 2012-11-13
In case if you are wondering, Chris Pinkham[1] and Willem Van Biljon[2] came up with the idea. Here is the story: http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pinkham
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Van_Biljon
mnewbould · 2021-08-20
Please read https://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html