> Further, AWS had Amazon as its first customer. Eat your own dog food and all that.
Is that true though? I've read many stories about internal Amazon teams not being allowed to use AWS and that, for the longest time, it was for customers only.
Is that true though? I've read many stories about internal Amazon teams not being allowed to use AWS and that, for the longest time, it was for customers only.
Edit: Target, Borders (the late bookstore) and gap were example users. It was called merchant.com (website url now redirects).
Supposedly AWS came about when merchant.com and the main site became hard to manager resources for, so they were broken out into services and APIs a la AWS.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-...
I think more companies should look at selling their internal core-competencies to outsiders. It would make starting and managing businesses easier for everyone.