The US market may not be growing, but the rest of the world will come online soon enough. And speaking from experience, most of the world lacks the infrastructu

The US market may not be growing, but the rest of the world will come online soon enough. And speaking from experience, most of the world lacks the infrastructure, climate, political stability, or protection from criminal activity to host individual server farms. If you're trying to start a business in India or Egypt, you're VASTLY better off outsourcing your IT to a dependable third party like AWS -- particularly as those costs drop over the next decade through economies of scale and technological progress. I'm sure the eventual goal is to sell AWS and its competitors as replacements for virtually all business IT and even personal computers -- even in stable Western countries. Current prices may have finally started to be competitive with local hosting, but we haven't even touched the potential of cloud computing yet.