Cloud Computing: How A Regular Employee Helped Put Amazon On The Path To Billions Of Dollars
July 23, 2014
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Richard Feloni.
Last year Amazon’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), brought the company $3.8 billion in revenue. As LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman, along with entrepreneurs Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, illustrate in their new book "The Alliance," this multibillion-dollar business wasn’t the brainchild of CEO Jeff Bezos or even an executive.
It came from Benjamin Black, an employee who had been with the company a little over a year. It was 2003, and Black was recently promoted to website engineering manager. As Black explains in a blog post, he wrote a short paper that outlined a way to restructure Amazon’s infrastructure, and at the end "mentioned the possibility of selling virtual servers as a service."…
He writes that he worked on the paper with his boss, vice president of IT infrastructure Chris Pinkham, and that they drew from the ideas they had discussed with their team. "We presented the paper to Bezos (he doesn’t do slides), he liked a lot of it, and we went back to work," Black writes…
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