> Amazon did not get lucky with their products. They developed them over a number of years,
EC2 and S3 today are virtually identical to the services they launched with. I don't think reality bears out your contention.
You're right that they had to add EBS later, but I think if anything that supports my point: the ephemeral "instance store" model was too weird, and customers really wanted something that acted like a virtual hard drive with persistent storage.
EC2 and S3 today are virtually identical to the services they launched with. I don't think reality bears out your contention.
You're right that they had to add EBS later, but I think if anything that supports my point: the ephemeral "instance store" model was too weird, and customers really wanted something that acted like a virtual hard drive with persistent storage.