> Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was "the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com", which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled.
Citation for this lie please. Because parts of your statement here do not really make sense. For instance that S3 was at one point they only service they had.
I think you misunderstood: the OP is saying that S3 was the only service that Amazon was actually using internally at the time out of the initial AWS service offering, even though AWS as a whole was sold as "the infrastructure that runs Amazon". I thought AWS started with EC2 & S3? Anyone got a link to a reliable history?
(Fwiw, I’ve heard the same thing the OP says elsewhere.)
> I think you misunderstood: the OP is saying that S3 was the only service that Amazon was actually using internally at the time out of the initial AWS service offering, even though AWS as a whole was sold as "the infrastructure that runs Amazon".
I can't even find sources of such a claim at the time the first offering of AWS occurred. The claim has made that as of 2010, 100% of amazon.com traffic goes via EC2 which I believe is likely as it has been mentioned by Amazon engineers.
That AWS was not built for amazon first and foremost has been said from the start. Jeff Bezos himself said early on that why only build it for themselves when they can sell it.
> I thought AWS started with EC2 & S3? Anyone got a link to a reliable history?
AWS's first service was SQS which launched two years before S3. EC2 launched half a year after S3.
Citation for this lie please. Because parts of your statement here do not really make sense. For instance that S3 was at one point they only service they had.