Amazon S3 Origin Story

I started working at Amazon exactly 20 years ago, and my first project was to design and implement the backend system for the new image upload feature for customer reviews. One problem we faced was finding a good place to store and serve all the images. We were investigating a commercial distributed file system product, but that got mixed up because there was some secret internal system being developed which would be just as good. That system became known as S3.

A text screenshot tells a humorous origin story about someone working on Amazon’s image storage system 20 years ago. The punchline is that the supposedly secret internal system became Amazon S3, turning a mundane engineering problem into the origin story of one of the world’s most famous cloud services. It is shared as a tech-industry joke or reaction about unexpectedly important projects. EN: A text screenshot tells a humorous origin story about someone working on Amazon’s image storage system 20 years ago. The punchline is that the supposedly secret internal system became Amazon S3, turning a mundane engineering problem into the origin story of one of the world’s most famous cloud services. It is shared as a tech-industry joke or reaction about unexpectedly important projects.

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