Comment by sephoric

7 years ago

This is how Bezos built AWS, so he meant services that are needed to build websites, such as databases, servers, containers, queues, caches, storage...

7 comments

sephoric

Reply
toufiqbarhamov  7 years ago

Bezos built AWS like Hadrian built a wall; both ordered that something be done, and it was left to tens of thousands of others to implement it. If you want to credit them with a lone vision, that’s fine if a bit unlikely given the reality of advisors and boards, but let’s not buy into the level of myth making required to say they built things.

  • prepend  7 years ago

    I think that Bezos literally wrote every line of code and assembled every atom on the servers hosting the api. That’s how I intetpreted Yegge’s post and why I think Bezos built AWS.

    • toufiqbarhamov  7 years ago

      I think that Bezos literally wrote every line of code and assembled every atom on the servers hosting the api. That’s how I intetpreted Yegge’s post and why I think Bezos built AWS.

      The Bezos-as-Demiurge theory, or “Gnostic Amazon” theory? I like it.

      1 reply →

anth_anm  7 years ago

> This is how Bezos built AWS

Bezos didn't build AWS, people who worked for him did. They also didn't do it as part of the normal day to day at Amazon, no matter how much Amazon pushes the "it's the tech we use already" narrative.

  • adventured  7 years ago

    > Bezos didn't build AWS, people who worked for him did.

    The people that worked on AWS didn't build it, the other people that worked on AWS built it. That's the meaning of your statement.

    Bezos works for Amazon, he decides whether AWS gets built or not, how large resources are deployed in the company, and what the priorities are over time. He worked on AWS. If you aren't an engineer, that doesn't mean you didn't help build a product or business. There are a lot of non-engineers that were required to build AWS, including managers, support staff, sales, marketing, HR, accounting and so on.

    Saying he didn't build it and that everyone else did, is the same style of mistake as pretending that Bezos built it by himself would be (and nobody actually thinks he built it by himself).

  • bobwaycott  7 years ago

    > Bezos didn't build AWS, people who worked for him did.

    The comment to which you’ve replied said exactly that.