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by dopidopHN 1340 days ago
well, when I first saw a aws prompt in 2006 or so, I was relief that EC2 was a plain debian-like machine.

Also I was saving me a phone call with Dell and a sunday evening configuring some hardware.

No new bullshit paradigm to learn, I could shove my code in there with tool I knew and call it a day.

EC2 was a stepping stone and it worked well to get some stuff in the cloud.

Remember the early days when only non-critical, non-PII stuff were in the cloud? And how some companies "just can't use it because of X" ( or worse the dreaded Y )