> To begin a software startup before AWS launched in 2006, a founder needed to purchase and set up servers, then operate them. This required thousands of dollar

> To begin a software startup before AWS launched in 2006, a founder needed to purchase and set up servers, then operate them. This required thousands of dollars, and weeks to launch a website. But with a cloud provider, all that was needed was a credit card, and a founder could have a website up and running in minutes, for only a few dollars. Nonsense. colo was very cheap and fast, took minutes or an hour tops to set up. And most startups needed something like webhosting or Ruby/Python hosting, both available. AWS added speed to scale and being lazy with performance.