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NASA moved Mars rover data to AWS after mission outlasted initial forecasts
“The Mars rover is a really good one. NASA came to us and said, look, we, there's a Mars rover up here, and we thought it would only rove for four months. It's still roving, like, eight months later, and they're like, it's using all our data and storage up, or,…”
Carlson: Amazon retail operated on 1.2% to 1.5% margins circa 2010
“And in retail, the margins are very lean. You know, I think somewhere, I don't know what it is today, but back then, like, 1.2 to 1.5% You don't have a lot of margins”
AWS scaled from 23 annual launches to 2,800 new services and features
“In cloud computing, we were launching so many services that one, we had to keep all our people fresh and trained because we went from like the first year I was there launching 23 new services to last year, I want to say it was like 2800 new services and featur…”