Internal 'F2' Memo

Benjamin Black and Chris Pinkham publish an internal memo, often referred to as 'F2' or 'Framework for Amazon.com', outlining the vision for Amazon's compute infrastructure as a service, proposing a standardized, programmatic interface for compute resources.

Significance

This memo is widely considered the foundational document that articulated the strategic vision for what would become AWS EC2, shifting Amazon's internal thinking towards externalizing its infrastructure capabilities.