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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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55 of the First Speakers at 2022 SaaStr Annual!!

SaaStr

Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Jen Dawson @ AWS. Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Avlok K, CEO @ AngelList. Farrah B, VP Business Operations @ Cribl. Patricia Hanna, VP Americas Sales Ops @ Confluent. Shradha Kothari, Chief of Staff, SVP & GM North America Sales @ Twilio. David Cancel, CEO @ Drift.

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100+ of the First Speakers at 2022 SaaStr Annual!!

SaaStr

Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Jen Dawson @ AWS. Elias Torres, CTO @ Drift. Bonney Pelley, SVP, Strategy + Operations @ New Relic. Robin Spencer, Chief Strategy Officer @ Clearbit. Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList. Farrah B, VP Business Operations @ Cribl.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. 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. What it means to Run Less Software.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Everything else is just a strategy to achieve the ultimate DevOps goal of continuous improvement. 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. Measure everything.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!