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How 4 Engineers Shipped AWS's Fastest Product Launch

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Ashish Jha (now Director of Engineering @ Drata) built AWS Audit Manager - one of AWS's fastest-growing services ever - launching in 15 months with 1,000 customers turning it on in the first 24 hours.

On this episode of 1 IDEA, Ashish shares how extreme constraints - 3 months to prove it, 8 months to ship - forced the architectural decisions that made it work at scale.

We cover:

  • The $200K/month architecture problem - and the filtering fix that saved it
  • How 50 customer calls killed features the team thought were critical
  • Why GDPR broke audit logs - and the authorization layer that fixed it
  • What happens when 1,000 customers launch in 24 hours vs a planned 3-month ramp
  • What would be AI-first today - and what stays deterministic in compliance
    • ...more
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