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David Rosenthal: belief

6 Sept 2022 Acquired Amazon Web Services

“S3 launches in March 2006. EC2 launches a few months later, I think, in beta in August 2006.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
6 Sept 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Let's talk about it. It was an independently useful thing. S3 (Simple Storage Service), is a place that is available on the Internet. You don't have to think about where it is; it's in the cloud. You can dump images there if you're an application developer and then elsewhere from your application, or other applications, or no applications. If you just want to access the image directly by URL, you can access. It's not just images, it's anything that you want to store up there. It's this wonderful, magical, amazing thing, where I don't have to buy a server, I don't have to configure a server, I don't have to rack a server, I don't have to think about maintaining a server, and I only pay as I go. It is insanely cheap. Yeah. S3 launches in March 2006. EC2 launches a few months later, I think, in beta in August 2006. What is EC2?…

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