Andy Jassy

“There is insatiable demand for AWS cloud services.”

“You have to challenge people, often people who know a lot more about a subject than you do.”

“Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years.”

“Companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure.”

“I mean it's easy to have a website. It's inexpensive to do so, and most of the small businesses have that, but to get access to hundreds of millions of customers is hard.”

“What's different is with every successive year, as we launch a thousand plus features and services, we just have the capabilities to make it easier for the rest of the market to use us.”

“We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had a mental image of a college kid in his dorm room having the same access, the same scalability and same infrastructure costs as the largest businesses in the world.”

“Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter.”

“With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field.”

“Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.”

“If you do any thorough, apples-to-apples, objective comparison of AWS versus Microsoft, you don't come out deciding that they're comparable platforms.”

“Simply because Amazon decides to pursue a market segment doesn't mean the customers are going to spend their money there, and so it means that we have to do an amazing job in providing a great customer experience that customers want.”

“You have to know what competitors are doing in your space.”

“We have a large number of people working in AI. If you look around homes and the workplace, there are all these sensors in many devices. This is what people commonly call the Internet of Things.”

“You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll continue to work on in the future.”

“My suspicion is that a lot of these office buildings will start to evolve from being optimized for individual offices or cube space to being hot offices where you decide which day you're going to come in and then you reserve a desk.”

“If you're flying everyone Business and First Class to meet customers, it's a pretty substantial expense, and none of that benefits customers.”

“You have to be willing to have failures along the way.”

“I would say that things like the head tax in Seattle I think are super dangerous for cities to implement. What company is going to want to start - or move to or grow in - a city that penalizes them for hiring full-time employees?”

“When you look at whether a company is a monopoly or not, the first thing you look at is what kind of market segment share they have.”