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“Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.”
“Netflix, despite the fact that they compete very aggressively with Prime Video on the Amazon side, they run everything on top of AWS and have for several years - same with Disney, Warner, Fox, HBO and Turner, they all run on AWS.”
“I think if you have a large group of people like we do - we have 1.2 million employees - it's almost like a small country.”
“You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.”
“I think that there are a number of older-guard technology companies who either genuinely believe or are hoping people will believe that companies aren't going to move to the cloud that quickly or that a very large amount of workloads will remain on-premises forever. I don't believe that.”
“When you need to make changes, even when people don't want to change, you have to pick the company up and change it, even if it means cannibalizing yourself.”
“A lot of times in intense moments, you tend to play conservatively because you're just trying to avoid losing, as opposed to trying to win.”
“I think that always our focus is gonna be the customers.”
“We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and Etsy and Wayfair, and we don't have the ability to raise prices in any kind of unfettered way.”
“Customers will always be nervous about lock-in, and I think the experience they had particularly with a company like Oracle, where it's a really hard thing to get out of, and they're so hostile to their customers, that I think it's a concern for every enterprise.”
“We don't think of HQ1 being Seattle any longer. We really think of it as Puget Sound.”
“Well, I think that the pandemic, I mean what a crazy period. I don't think any of us have lived through anything like that before and I hope we never live through anything like that after.”
“A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business - which by the way is a completely rational strategy.”
“When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment.”
“Between what we do with Alexa and what we do in the living room, I think we have an opportunity to change what's possible for people and what's accessible to people.”
“We started to consider what became Amazon Web Services between 2000 and 2003.”
“The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they'd be treated as every bit as important a customer as Amazon the retailer is.”
“Most meetings largely take place in one physical location, and then people plug in remotely. But they are a little bit off to the side; they can't participate in the meeting as fully as you like.”
“We've had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we've never had any reported misuse of law enforcement using the facial recognition technology.”
“It's not a surprise to us that every large technology company is trying to build an offering like AWS' because it's such a good value proposition for customers.”