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I worked for AWS for a few years under Andy. He's a good pick for CEO of that company.
by astrojams 6y ago
I worked for AWS for a few years under Andy. He's a good pick for CEO of that company.
- jgalt212 6y agowithout Andy (and AWS), I'd posit that Jeff would just be another regular old billionaire who'd own a sports team, but otherwise folks would not know much about.
- edanm 6y agoI'm pretty sure you're wrong. Most people have no idea what AWS is, but know what Amazon the consumer business is. AWS is only well known among tech circles.
- Axsuul 6y agoI think OP was alluding to the cash cow that AWS has become.
- mywittyname 6y agoI kind of agree. But without AWS, Amazon could never have become the Amazon that we know today. AWS brings in the vast majority of the profits (sometimes >100%) for Amazon, despite being a modest proportion of revenue (~10%). This is what generates the funding necessary for Amazon to do the crazy things that make Amazon amazing. Amazon - AWS = digital Walmart. Big and profitable, but not Amazon.
- dimator 6y agoI think gp means that bezos would not be a mega billionaire without aws. He would be like any other nameless CEO in the public's knowledge.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agowithout AWS would Amazon have been able to dominate?
- karmasimida 6y ago> Most people have no idea what AWS is Actually no. Most people I know even not in Tech, know Amazon has this 'cloud' business. Whether they know it is called AWS or not, is different.
- rileyphone 6y agoAWS has been buying a zillion ads in NFL games, not entirely sure why but it's hard to ignore.
- paxys 6y agoWhile regular consumers may not know what AWS is, Amazon's core business was able to sustain losses for 10+ years only because of profits coming from there.
- zmmmmm 6y agoInterestingly, if you go international, Amazon is either not present at all or a niche player as an online store in many countries. But in terms of cloud infrastructure they've become the universal global default / premium service. It is fascinating to me that they have beaten players like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc. to this status. I actually have to mount a business case in my organisation NOT to use AWS even though all the desktops and half the servers are pure Microsoft stack.
- cosmodisk 6y agoAsk outside tech bubble and 9/10 never even heard of AWS,even though half of the things they use run on it. The retail front-end is the PR, while AWS is a magic money tree.
- Slump 6y agoI mostly agree but I also think AWS is probably more in the public consciousness than most people would think (in the US anyway). They have TV advertisement slots with NFL for crying out loud. That said, most people probably don't actually know what it is, just that they've heard of it. As "cloud" and "AI" become more and more accepted generic terms for technology to the public and I think AWS may even over take the PR position.
- cosmodisk 6y agoFair point,I was commenting from European point of view,where tech companies are often invisible,apart from maybe Google or Apple with their ads plastered all over the place.I reckon an average American is more likely to tell what Oracle or AWS is just purely because of the amount of ads they've been exposed to, compared to an average European
- randomsearch 6y agoI see the future of Amazon as ~ 100% AWS. Do you think this will change that outcome?
- tinyhouse 6y agoHow did you get to that conclusion?
- RC_ITR 6y agoSpending too much time around other developers. In the current environment, E-commerce is a less interesting space for startup founders vs. cloud SW. This led parent commenter to assume the cloud is more important than E-commerce. This is a fallacy, of course, since E-commerce is probably the largest / most important market on the internet, it just doesn't FEEL that way b/c Amazon has an unprecedented control over nearly the entire thing.
- treis 6y agoAWS has 40 billion in revenue, 12 billion in profit and is growing 30% YoY. It's got great profit margins, huge lock in, and is a natural monopoly. Not sure how much it would be worth on the open market, but wouldn't surprise me that it's 50%+ of Amazon's market cap.
- RC_ITR 6y agoThis may seem like a silly question, but what is the point of the cloud if people don't buy goods / services over the Internet? If ecommerce remained flat for the rest of time, do you really think the cloud would grow?
- randomsearch 6y agoAWS is 57% of Amazon's profit in 2020. Cloud has barely begun.
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- DoctorNick 6y agoWill he stop immiserating the warehouse workers that work for them?
- missedthecue 6y agoa living wage (as defined by the internet's favorite vermont politician) is immiserating?
- adamcstephens 6y agoAmazon just settled with the FTC for stealing Flex drivers’ tips. Likely that’s just the tip of the iceberg in their screwing over the people who make their products move.