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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Amazon EC2 comes up on Acquired, Latent Space, the MAD Podcast, 20VC, the a16z Podcast
Everyone Is Still Undersizing the AI Market | Eric Vishria · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 3:52 Eric Vishria So, 2006, you have S three and EC two launch, right?
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 9:47 Walden Yan It was not very polished at the start, like when we just built it off of raw VMs from cloud providers like EC two, the boot up time
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 9:22 Ivan Burazin We have like EC two, we have VMs, we have all these things, but we saw that everyone we gave it to was like 20, 30 people.
- ▶ 14:21 Ivan Burazin And so those two things, it's like combining a lambda and an EC two, right?
- ▶ 35:46 Ivan Burazin And the only option right now is an EC two with Windows or on, on, on Azure.
Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:54 unnamed speaker When we launched EC two or compute service, it was a single instance in one availability zone, Linux only with no auto scaling, load balancing, block storage, or private networking.
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 30:27 unnamed speaker In some ways you have to basically become like an EC two.
Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
- ▶ 55:01 Martin Casado We saw this with the cloud with EC too.
Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 13:02 unnamed speaker The primitives of it, EC-II for compute and S-III for storage. 3 times in the scene
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 1:33:08 Jim Zemlin Amazon was, you know, hosting virtual machines on EC two, and they were the de facto leader.
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 1:15 Mike Merrill Um, and a great example of this is if you've ever tried to launch an EC two instance from the GUI.
He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
- ▶ 42:58 Dheeraj Pandey Once I like object storage, then I'll move to EC two.
Terminal-Bench: Pushing Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Factory Droid, et al to the limits
- ▶ 7:09 Mike Merrill You know, like the example that I like to give is if you've ever tried to launch an EC two instance through AWS, like clicking through their GUI, it's probably 20, 30 clicks to get that thing off the ground, you know, collecting,…
Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:21:29 Dylan Patel And they have, their highest revenue products after EC-II were like, the next four were like, database products at AWS, and yet they still freaking used Oracle's database.
Episode 800 | The 12 Commandments of Startups for the Rest of Us
- ▶ 23:08 Rob Walling On an EC-II instance with Amazon, and I have written and maintained all that code, that there is, of course, some Amazon platform risk, but that risk is not equivalent to if I have built an app in no code on Bubble or Airtable.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Episode 788 | Do I Need a Co-founder? And More Listener Questions...
- ▶ 27:01 Derrick Reimer So like these days I don't, I don't stand up my own EC two instances and make myself be responsible for patching the firewall and making sure that there's no open ports and all that kind of stuff.
No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- ▶ 16:13 Dylan Patel Yes, EC-II is a product that is, like, pretty simple, but, like, block storage and all these other things are actually quite difficult to do at scale well,
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 1:59:48 Martin Shkreli So if, you know, I want to be able to provide you EC two and S three the same way, you know, Citadel might use it and you might use it with, you know, less money.
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 14:03 Paul Klein Let's get an EC two server running. 3 times in the scene
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 37:33 Chamath Palihapitiya If you're trying to use like an EC two endpoint or an S three bucket, you don't have to all of a sudden
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 35:22 Erik Bernhardsson but like at the end of the day, like EC two is like what, like, you know, 50, 60, 70% margins.
Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
- ▶ 12:36 Rob Walling It's a slider of like, well, if I'm only using an EC two instance and everything's there, then that, you know, maybe lowish switching costs.
No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
- ▶ 11:25 Jared Quincy Davis Later that year, in September, they launched EC two, um, and that kind of was the beginning of the cloud.
Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:51 David Luan Like today, the base computing primitive is like nodes on EC two or like, uh, storage, right?
AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
- ▶ 24:36 Swami Sivasubramanian So the EC two instances that are powered by our, uh, 2 times in the scene
Episode 708 | Outsourcing Marketing, Competitive Markets, and Mor...
- ▶ 39:57 Rob Walling We would increase the size of our database, the Amazon EC two instance, the moment there was more RAM.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 55:56 Ben Firshman So we were working on, like, productionizing Docker containers, and Olama was working on a thing called Kitematic, which was a bit like a, a desktop app for Docker.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 16:30 Erik Bernhardsson Yeah, it's like, you just, like, say, you know, on the function decorator, you're like, GPU equals, you know, a 100, and then, or like, GPU equals, you know, uh, a 10 or a T four, something like that, and then you get that GPU, and like,…
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 44:03 Chamath Palihapitiya So the people that made money in 2006 and seven were Amazon principally because of EC two and S three. 2 times in the scene
A $20m Business with No Meetings, Deadlines or Full-Time Employees
- ▶ 11:37 Sahil Lavingia Obviously it's much harder to spin up like a engineering team than like a set of EC two servers.
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:45 Des Traynor Flat up like buying Anthropic and being like, let's just make this part of the EC two cluster.
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:38 Jeff Seibert They'll allow you, they'll give you all these base capabilities, uh, like you get with EC two and S three and so on and so on.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:10 Des Traynor So like, I could see Amazon just like flat up like buying Anthropic and being like, let's just make this part of the EC two cluster.
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 34:53 Aravind Srinivas You can crawl, you can write a crawler, like rent a lot of, you know, EC two instances and keep doing it and like deduplicating it and keep expanding it.
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- ▶ 30:05 Jeremy Howard Like, for example, for working with EC-II on AWS, I created a fast EC-II library, which I think is, like, way more convenient and nice to use than anything else out there.
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 49:11 Youssef Rizk We were like on one EC two instance.
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 33:50 Chamath Palihapitiya How much did an EC two instance cost?
Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Fundin...
- ▶ 35:24 Rob Walling So they're essentially, they're, they're similar to a digital ocean or, you know, maybe like an Amazon EC two type thing.
Build Fast APIs Faster Over Data at Scale | Tinybird Founder & CEO Jorge Gomez Sancha
- ▶ 4:09 Jorge Gomez Sancha To deploy applications, you might not need EC two.
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 46:58 Chris Power So, you know, the example I would give is like, you know, if you're a backend software engineer and like, you weren't really sure whether you could spin up a new, like, uh, EC two instance or not,
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 33:25 Benn Stancil Um, all that stuff can be rebuilt on top of, like, a data infrastructure instead of on top of just sort of AWS and S-three and EC-two and all that kind of stuff.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:44 Logan Bartlett Who app ever wanted to compete with Amazon on their home turf, which was AWS and, and what we thought was Redshift and EC two at the time.
Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- ▶ 3:40 Abhishek Goyal And, uh, uh, in 2006, Amazon was at a point where, um, I think EC two was launched for the first time and, um, uh, how, uh, it was very interesting to see how Jeff Bezos was ridiculed so aggressively by everybody in the ecosystem.
20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- ▶ 3:26 Todd McKinnon We had Amazon web services coming out, S three, EC two.
Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:08 Tristan Handy Um, that's my, you know, I know that that's a technology centric answer to that question, but like, it's the same way that like EC two or S three has changed the way that we think about not just like building applications, but
Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 8:10 Justin Borgman You have EC two, which is your compute, and you have S three, which is your storage. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 6:26 John Collison Three and EC two, the very basic primitive storage and compute, and then, you know, moved very quickly up the stack to, you know, we're very happy users of AWS.
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 23:11 Benjamin Heinemann Um, when you're running, say, OpenStack on EC two, uh, uh, and that does not help the developer build another system. 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Werner Vogels · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:44 Dr. Werner Vogels We launched EC-II in the fall of that, that year.
- ▶ 36:14 Dr. Werner Vogels I mean, if you run a whole batch of EC-II instances, whether you use them or not, they're, you're being built for them.
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 3:27 Leore Avidar And so to me, like, being able to use Amazon's EC-II product was just like a superpower for me.
Michael Jordan
- ▶ 21:11 Michael Jordan So, uh, this is on the Amazon EC two. 2 times in the scene
How do You Sell for $90m with NO REVENUE?! EP 167
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 6:38 Bob Muglia Which provides an incredible degree of scalability and durability, 11 nines of durability, and yet we separate all the compute from that, running that as a set of what we call a virtual warehouse, which is a set of Amazon EC two nodes, um,…
- ▶ 23:00 Bob Muglia Um, which is essentially a set of, of EC two compute nodes.
Chris Wiggins, NY Times // Data Science at The New York Times (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 18:27 Chris Wiggins There's a lot of use of, um, both S-III and HDFS, so we do a lot of MapReduce jobs to chomp up huge JSON buckets of our own design in S-III via EC-II in order to render it down to a bite-sized data table so we can beat it down with…
Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 17:10 Michael Schmidt Um, and then you go to start the search, and here's where it can either run locally on your laptop, or if you've enabled the cloud and you have an Amazon EC-II account, you can automatically distribute it across, you know, hundreds of…
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012
- ▶ 17:26 Eric (MemSQL) I have a lot of, uh, you know, folks that spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on EC-II, um, and they could do it for a fraction of the price if they did it on premise. 3 times in the scene
"The Business of Data" Panel // October 2011
- ▶ 2:32 Roger Ehrenberg Uh, on the one hand, you've got, you know, things like, you know, EC-II and AWS, which facilitate, you know, the storage of massive amounts of data without your own, um, your own big iron architecture, and at the same time, the, the CPUs…
- ▶ 11:34 Matt Turck Fire up an EC two instance and you start getting data?