Safa Rashtchy on Amazon's investment projects, including AWS (2006)

I have yet to see how these investments are producing any profit.  They're probably more of a distraction than anything else.

~ Safa Rashtchy, Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst, "Jeff Bezos' Risky Bets," BusinessWeek, November 13, 2006

Scott Devitt on Amazon's investment projects (including AWS)

There's not going to be any economic return from any of these projects for the foreseeable future.

~ Scott W. Devitt, Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst, "Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet," BusinessWeek, November 13, 2006

Jeff Bezos on investments in AWS

We think it's going to be a very meaningful business for us one day.  What we've historically seen is that the seeds we plant can take anywhere from three, five, seven years.

~ Jeff Bezos, "Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet," BusinessWeek, November 13, 2006

BusinessWeek on Amazon Web Services (2006)

Yes, Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, the onetime Internet poster boy who quickly became a post-dot-com piñata, is back with yet another new idea.  Many people continue to wonder if the world's largest online store will ever fulfill its original promise to revolutionize retailing.  But now Bezos is plotting another new direction for his 12-year-old company, which he will lay out on Nov. 8 at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Conference, the annual gathering of the digerati crème.  Judging from an advance look he gave BusinessWeek on one recent gray day at Amazon's Seattle headquarters, it's so far from Amazon's retail core that you may well wonder if he has finally slipped off the deep end.

~ Robert D. Hof, "Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet," BusinessWeek, November 13, 2006

Jeff Deist on the future of free, decentralized communications

The underlying ideology, the impulse towards freedom which includes free communications and speech, is not so easily quashed.  And for that reason, I'm actually quite optimistic about a highly decentralized future where we don't have these huge gatekeepers like Google search, or Amazon Web Services, or Facebook and Twitter and Instagram as the only big 800 lb. gorillas in social media.  So I'm actually quite optimistic.

~ Jeff Deist, "Dealing With Big Tech Censorship - With Jeff Deist," 22:30 mark, Ron Paul Liberty Report, January 14, 2021