I had forgotten that you had to individually request AWS services early on. I checked my email history from 2007 and it's true, I was initially only granted access to "Amazon E-Commerce Service"! I got a separate email confirming that I had signed up for S3. Funny that they hadn't yet figured out that the automatic "package deal" is one of their biggest selling points.
The next service I signed up for was "Alexa Web Information Service". Web search as a service, back when "Alexa" was the search company they had acquired, not a voice assistant. By mid-2007 I was (finally) accepted into the EC2 beta. The rest, as they say, is history.
The next service I signed up for was "Alexa Web Information Service". Web search as a service, back when "Alexa" was the search company they had acquired, not a voice assistant. By mid-2007 I was (finally) accepted into the EC2 beta. The rest, as they say, is history.