A few things for context: 1) This came up b/c somebody else publicly described the author as the inventor of EC2, which created some unintended blowback; 2) T

A few things for context: 1) This came up b/c somebody else publicly described the author as the inventor of EC2, which created some unintended blowback; 2) The author is well-known in the ops community and still close to a number of people at Amazon, and has no personal or professional interest in hurting those relationships.