Garman says Google and Microsoft forced new app paradigms in early cloud
Matt Garman · No Priors Ep. 78 | With AWS CEO Matt Garman · Aug 29, 2024 · at 3:47
AWS CEO Matt Garman compares AWS's initial infrastructure approach to early competing cloud offerings from Google and Microsoft.
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“I think if you look at some of those others like Google and later Microsoft they kind of went at this space for first, we were the first ones out there that had anything like this, but even soon after that, I think they went after the space, like that was going to force the developers to change how they build applications and kind of build them in a new way. And we went after it as in, we're going to build building blocks and let developers and builders go build interesting things.”
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