20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups &mdash; even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later &mdash; and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web…