Way back in the day, I linked out to Jeff Barr, AWS’s first blogger. He’s been at it forever on behalf of the public cloud provider, but I was following even before that. In the early days of RSS, I was into what he was doing with syndic8.com.
Now Barr is moving on after 20 years. A commendable run. I always admired his writing as extremely competent, technical, accessible, human, and gracious.
It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last two decades: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to name just a few and to leave many others out. It has also been a privilege to be able to meet and to hear from so many of you that have faithfully read and (hopefully) learned from my content over the years. I treasure those interactions and your kind words, and I keep both in mind when I write.
While Barr was blogging about S3 in its early days, I had a few things to say about the service.
Just a few thoughts on Amazon’s new web service S3, which is cheap, reliable, plentiful Internet based storage.
S3 is not a game changer.
That didn’t age well.
Bravo AWS for avoiding bitrot on this 18 year old link.