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How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards

Hitenism

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B run rate business and has made up for an incredible 67% of Amazon’s operating revenue last quarter.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe

Intercom, Inc.

Until now, Intercom has been a multitenant application hosted in a single region in AWS. We identified some “ known unknowns” too; problems we needed to solve, but didn’t know how just yet – like integrating the new region into our billing system. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Companies can use it for document drafting, versioning in a negotiation and also workflow to get it approved. So, you’re spot on for the AI product, and then for pre-signature products it’s really around document creation and getting it to that final form for signature.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. The result: better security and no need for manual IP whitelisting.

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Observable Framework Delivers Blazing-fast Data Dashboards

Crafty CTO

As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.