Do you have sources that confirm that this was the case? Otherwise, none of the counter proof that you demanded would be needed, saving everybody some research time
It's also on the Wikipedia page, with references to the appropriate articles/talks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...
This is not some secret or hidden piece of knowledge requiring extensive research..
EC2 was sold to customers long before it was functional and secure enough for Amazon itself to use.
> EC2 was developed first and foremost for Amazon's internal infrastructure. It started out as an idea in the head of Chris Pinkham, who worked as an engineer in charge of Amazon's global infrastructure in the early 2000s.
> "It struck us in the infrastructure engineering organisation that we really needed to decentralise the infrastructure by providing services to development teams," Pinkham says. "That was a big motivating factor."
Someone here is lying. I really couldn't care less who's right or wrong, I'm just using publicly available information.
This is probably the case for 99% of all arguments I witnessed in my career.
GP and myself are in agreement that the widely understood history is as I laid it out (given they said it was a myth). Happy to link to some info on the history of AWS, but its not the point of this thread I think