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Genesis

In the beginning, Jeff Bezos created Amazon.com and took the company to a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) by 1997. Everyone knows Amazon.com, of course, and it has become a force of nature, dominating the online retail and diversifying into several other fields. However, in the early 2000s, after the Dotcom bubble burst, the company's future was not quite as certain as now. Even so, one of the many things that Amazon was doing right even then was architecting its internal computer systems in a truly robust and scalable way.

Amazon had a lot of users and a lot of traffic, and in order to service that traffic, the company really had to think deeply about how to build scalable, cost-effective compute capacity. Now you could ...