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Amazon's Black Friday Crash: How AWS Cloud Was Born
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Discover the incredible origin story of Amazon Web Services (AWS)! We explore how a Black Friday crash in the early 2000s sparked the creation of the cloud. Learn how Amazon's engineers, led by Andy Jassy, innovated in Cape Town and changed the world of computing.
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Imagine Amazon.com was down for 12 hours
during the busiest shopping season of
the year. And so they did a postmodm
afterwards to figure out what happened.
How did we go down? And they asked
themselves, they said, "We have the most
advanced technology, the most expensive
databases. We did not skip out on
anything. How did we go down?" and they
realize that they are way ahead of the
technology out there and that they have
to innovate and come up with new ways of
doing computing and that's how the cloud
was born. There were a group of of
engineers in Cape Town and Africa who
came up and Andy Jasse who was the CEO
of Amazon of Amazon Web Services now
he's the CEO of Amazon he was one of the
founders of the cloud and that's how
they came up with the concept of the
cloud but they did it for themselves.
Oh.