Amazon EC2, every mention

Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 17 mentions

• ▶ 55:45 David Rosenthal But what AWS is, is abstracted hardware IT infrastructure and software too, but the core like S three EC two, that's IT infrastructure.
• ▶ 1:05:12 Ben Gilbert And in fact, I can recall personally using Amazon S three for something I was working on and there was no EC two.
• ▶ 1:06:38 David Rosenthal EC two launches a few months later in August, 2006.
• ▶ 1:06:45 Ben Gilbert And what is EC two?
• ▶ 1:06:47 David Rosenthal EC two is elastic compute cloud, which is the compute counterpart to the storage part of AWS in S three.
• ▶ 1:06:56 Ben Gilbert And a simple way to think about EC-II is if you were a web application developer at the time, like I was, and you were writing stuff, and you were sort of running it on local host on your computer, and you had previously been deploying it…
• ▶ 1:12:36 David Rosenthal That becomes EC two.
• ▶ 1:12:37 David Rosenthal It's that team in South Africa that builds EC two.
• ▶ 1:12:41 David Rosenthal Bradstone writes in the everything store quote EC two was born in isolation with Pinkham talking to his colleagues in Seattle only sporadically
• ▶ 1:13:18 Ben Gilbert Bezos Jassy leadership that even in the official Amazon things that they put out about the development in South Africa, like Chris Pinkham's name is sort of nowhere to be found even in this South Africa specific blog post about the history…
• ▶ 1:13:51 David Rosenthal The vision document proposing the AWS business and outlining the initial set of services for AWS, including our compute service EC two was finished and presented to the executive team in September, 2003.
• ▶ 1:14:12 David Rosenthal This was about a year before Chris Pinkham moved to South Africa to build the initial version of EC two.
• ▶ 1:14:18 David Rosenthal Chris played an integral role in the definition team building and product building of EC two, despite leaving before EC two was launched.
• ▶ 1:27:52 Ben Gilbert You just write your code, and then when you want to call it, a thing just spins up for a few milliseconds, runs your code, and spins down, and you were never aware of its IP address or where in the world it was.
• ▶ 1:45:54 David Rosenthal One of the things that I think to most people was to me before doing the research here is vastly underappreciated about AWS is, you know, people think about EC two and S three and it's like infrastructure as a service and compute storage…
• ▶ 1:46:22 David Rosenthal AC two, S three, they're juggernauts, but numbers three, four, and five are all databases.
• ▶ 2:03:31 Ben Gilbert And it's funny that the playbook that Snowflake ran is pretty similar to the playbook that AWS ran when they were just S three and EC two serving individual developers.