February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
186 pages
5h 12m
English
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Chapter 1. Introducing AWS
From 0 to AWS
By the late 1990s, Amazon had proven its success—it showed that people were willing to shop online. Amazon generated $15.7 million in sales in 1996, its first full fiscal year. Just three years later, Amazon saw $1.6 billion in sales, and Jeff Bezos was chosen Person of the Year by Time magazine. Realizing its sales volume was only 0.5% that of Wal-Mart, Amazon set some new business goals. One of these goals was to change from shop to platform.
At this time, Amazon was struggling with its infrastructure. It was a classic monolithic system, which was very difficult to scale, and Amazon wanted to open it up to third-party developers. In 2002, Amazon created the initial AWS, an interface to programmatically access Amazon’s features. This first set of APIs is described in the wonderful book Amazon Hacks by Paul Bausch (O’Reilly), which still sits prominently on one of our shelves.
But the main problem persisted—the size of the Amazon website was just too big for conventional (web) application development techniques. Somehow, Jeff Bezos found Werner Vogels (now CTO of Amazon) and lured him to Amazon in 2004 to help fix these problems. And this is when it started for the rest of us. The problem of size was addressed, and slowly AWS transformed from “shop API” to an “infrastructure cloud.” To illustrate exactly what AWS can do for you, we want to take you through the last six years of AWS evolution (see Figure 1-1 for a timeline). This is not just ...
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