Werner Vogels on the excess capacity myth: The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter of selling excess capacity, actually within 2 mon

Werner Vogels on the excess capacity myth: The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter of selling excess capacity, actually within 2 months after launch AWS would have already burned through the excess Amazon.com capacity. Amazon Web Services was always considered a business by itself, with the expectation that it could even grow as big as the Amazon.com retail operation. http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cloud-computing-business?share=1 http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo...