Colin Percival reflects on 20 years with AWS starting April 2006, covering his early involvement with S3, FreeBSD/EC2 integration, security concerns he raised, and his work building services like Tarsnap on the platform. He shares technical feedback that shaped AWS features and documents his contributions to cloud infrastructure security.
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20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
AWS engineer Colin Percival documents 20 years of influence shaping cloud infrastructure security from S3's early days through building Tarsnap, revealing how founder feedback reshaped the platform's architectural decisions.
Saturday, April 11, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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