> You’re at Amazon, in 2001 and you know that in 5 years there will be a thing called AWS and that’s going to become the most important thing? Much of this is

> You’re at Amazon, in 2001 and you know that in 5 years there will be a thing called AWS and that’s going to become the most important thing? Much of this is attributed to the email Jeff Bezos sent telling people to productionize internal APIs. My guess is: yes. People would be building what would have become AWS early on by solving the root problem for any given issue, establishing a decent API for it, and then consuming that API in some business logic. Bezos' big contribution was telling people to do what they would have usually done.