Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Working backwards isn’t a silver bullet that guarantees you success on the scale of AWS.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Subscribe now Foundation Models Are to AI what S3 was to the Public Cloud Many people look at 2006 as the birth of the public cloud - the year Amazon launched AWS. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In B2B, the classic metric for this is 2% now and was 2% in 2006. In B2B, you also have fixed costs, but you can diversify monetization based on tokens or seats, or in the case of AWS, however you like. That’s up from 60% in 2023. While free trial offerings have increased, conversion to paid remains fairly low at 1.7%.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

I asked ChatGPT how many price changes AWS has made to S3 since it’s inception in 2006, and the answer it gave me was 65. If we rewind the clock back to the cloud buildout, the competition between the 3 main players has lead to numerous price changes. Staggering!

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Cloud Technical Review Artificial Intelligence AI 143

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Our engineers also write a lot of Ruby code, which knits together a lot of AWS, infrastructure, platform and SaaS technologies that form the core of Intercom’s backend infrastructure. Cloud computing is dominant. Best in class public companies (e.g.

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Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. The company was founded all the way back in 2006, amazingly. The first is just literally funding the company in 2006. And even back in 2006 SaaS was not what it is today. Just a bit of history.

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