You may be right. People were talking about a bubble for several years back in the late 90s before it finally burst in 2000, so there's no reason to assume thi

You may be right. People were talking about a bubble for several years back in the late 90s before it finally burst in 2000, so there's no reason to assume this one will be any faster. That's actually why I was looking at investing in Amazon AWS; I don't have enough money to invest in startups, but I was hoping that I could buy some stock in something that would grow as startups do; the old metaphor of buying the company that sells shovels to gold prospectors. That's why I was a bit disappointed that AWS is such a small part of Amazon's service, because it meant that I couldn't use them that way -- and because they're such a massively dominant player in the hosting market, there seemed to be little point in investing in (eg.) Rackspace instead. Still, my investment track record is kind of spotty, so I may well be totally wrong with that strategy anyway.