Jeff Bezos mandated internal move to modular services in 2003
Matt Garman · No Priors Ep. 78 | With AWS CEO Matt Garman · Aug 29, 2024 · at 4:17
AWS CEO Matt Garman explains how Amazon's internal shift away from a monolithic codebase around 2003 directly motivated the creation of AWS.
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“If you scroll back all the way to 2003 or so, Jeff Bezos basically mandated across the company that in order to move from a big monolithic stack that wasn't going to scale anymore for Amazon, we had to move everything to services.”
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