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Throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, I worked in the rank and file of system admin-
istrators who endeavored to keep network services online, secure, and available to users.
At that time, working with systems was a tedious, monotonous affair involving cable
slinging, server racking, operating system installation from optical media, and manual
software configuration. Any businesses wishing to engage in the emerging online mar-
ketplace bore the burden of managing physical servers, accepting the associated capital
and operating costs, and hoping for enough success to justify those expenses.
When Amazon Web Services emerged in 2006, it signaled a shift in the industry.
Many of the previously repetitive, time-consuming tasks became unnecessary, and the
cost of launching new services plummeted. Suddenly anyone with a good idea and the
ability to execute could build a global business on world-class infrastructure at a start-
ing cost of just a few cents per hour. In terms of cumulative disruption of an estab-
lished market, a few technologies stand above all others, and
AWS is among them.
Today the march of progress continues unabated. In November 2014, at its annual
re:Invent conference in Las Vegas,
AWS announced to more than 13,000 live attendees
that the number of major new features and services had nearly doubled each year
since 2008. Usage of existing services grew on a similar scale, with a roughly 100%
year-over-year increase for S3 and
EC2. This growth offers new opportunities for the
engineers and businesses that strive to solve some of the most challenging problems in
building an online marketplace.
Needless to say, this unprecedented power and flexibility comes at the expense of
considerable complexity. In response to and often in anticipation of customer
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