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> Google also had zero enterprise experience.

Same was true of Amazon.




Amazon’s internal stack was very similar to other tech companies. Google did everything custom and different than the pack. E.g. google web toolkit over JavaScript. Containers vs VMs. Bigtable/spanner vs Mongo/Cassandra.

At the time, Amazon might not have had enterprise sales teams. But they had deep expertise in running the familiar suite of enterprise software at scale.




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