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The 2002 Bezos API Mandate helped Amazon scale their business, and formed much of the modern thought around APIs and microservices. But was this memo real, or just myth?

In 2002, according to tech legend, a mandate was issued by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. This mandate – also known as the “Bezos API Mandate” or “Amazon API Mandate”- would serve to form the backbone of Amazon in the modern web space, informing both the API development paradigm in the corporate mindset and a general improved approach to externalizing API functions. Below, we’ll talk about the mandate and discuss why it has become so legendary in the API space. We’ll dive into each point’s specifics and look at how the mandate formed much of the modern thought around APIs and microservices.

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