When We Met
Back in 2011 at comiXology, during my very first week, James Jackson was pushing the buttons to get everything moved over. We were ditching Rackspace and moving to AWS. At the time, I had barely heard of AWS, the console was uglier than the retail site and had only a handful of services to work with. But something clicked. I had been hosting on servage.net for a few years at that point, but there was something different and amazing about the way AWS presented and crafted the solution to the problem of "I want a computer that I can connect to and do whatever I want." I was hooked. Over the next 3 years we would grow our usage. When Aman started, he was even more well-versed and started working on multi-master Galera rings for our MySQL databases, still running on EC2, because that's how you did it when RDS didn't cut it, which was often in the beginning.
The Plot Thickens
Once we were acquired by Amazon, I decided AWS was the future I wanted to explore. I'll write more since all of these are fluid articles, although eventually, I assume they will become mostly static...