The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing
GigaOM · Stacey Higginbotham · · Article
"I was horrified at the thought of the dirty, public Internet touching MY beautiful operations."
Jesse Robbins, Amazon's former Master of Disaster, reveals the origin story of EC2 — how engineer Chris Pinkham's move to South Africa led to the accidental creation of the world's first cloud computing platform, and how Robbins' own "traditional IT mindset" initially resisted it.