Amazon Web Services
also referred to as: aws
part of Amazon
28 statements across 21 episodes · 18 bullish · 3 bearish · 17 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by DJ Kleinbaum · said 192 times in 100 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Chris Dixon (23), Sonal Chokshi (19), Martin Casado (8), Vijay Pande (7), Marc Andreessen (6), Benedict Evans (6), Ben Horowitz (6), Augusto Marietti (6)
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2026 16 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
- The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 30 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
- Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 116 mentions in 55 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | The Cloud and The Public Sector
- a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- a16z Podcast | Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
- a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- a16z Podcast | AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application
- a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- 47 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Jul 15, 2018 negative
Jul 26, 2018 positive
Jul 26, 2018 negative
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Bezos reinvests hundreds of billions into Amazon's infrastructure over holding cash
“And for Amazon, you've got exactly the opposite story, that instead of taking, putting a hundred and fifty billion dollars in the bank, he's put a hundred and fifty billion dollars into building new warehouses, and AWS, and new countries, and new categories, a…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Dixon: Distributed computing will dominate software engineering for decades
“Over the next few decades, distributed computing will be a particularly important topic because we're now with things like AWS awash in Computing resources you know, compute is becoming, approaching zero, storage, networking, but most of this is on, you know, …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Ashatosh: Azure and IBM will beat AWS in enterprise cloud within two years
“In fact, we predict that the number one enterprise cloud in the next two years is probably going to be Azure, and not AWS, just because they are sucking up a tremendous amount of footprint of applications. And number two actually might be IBM, and not AWS, as …”
Jan 2, 2019
AWS Public Sector scaled slower than expected, requiring hands-on customer guidance
“Once we got in the door, we felt maybe the customers would scale faster than they actually did. Now, fast forward five and a half years, I'm very pleased with where our customers have gone, but I think we probably didn't realize how much sort of work we would …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Middle East startups need business mentoring more than technical support
“The Middle East, I think, is a really good example of what we had to do there was a little bit different. We actually had to create a model for mentoring in terms of business mentoring, because they have some businesses that are really start-uppy there, but we…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
AWS built the U.S. Intelligence Community cloud using standard commercial architecture
“The intelligence community is a cloud that we built. It's exactly like any cloud that we built around the world. It's just on their own network. So by sense, it's their own private cloud, but it is just like any other AWS region. It's just on a different netwo…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jensen Harris: Early ML startups should use cloud providers, not custom infrastructure
“Yeah, you don't need to custom build something, and you shouldn't spend any of your time working on that. Like, you should figure out what cloud platform you're using, whether it's AWS, or whether it's Azure, or something else. They all have built-in ML servic…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Dixon: Ethereum Is Less Performant Than AWS and Google Cloud
“Crypto networks like Ethereum are actually kind of worse in some of those dimensions. So, for example, as in the performance side, it's not as performant as, let's say, AWS or Google Cloud Services or something if you wanted to write a video game or something.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Mar 1, 2019
de la Garza: AWS Employee Misconfiguration Caused Hosting Provider Data Breach
“There was a hosting provider that had a breach of their data that was caused by an, it was actually an AWS salesperson, had misconfigured the permissions on their S three bucket and had a bunch of customer confidential data inside this bucket, which then got d…”
Mar 1, 2019
De la Garza: Leaked AWS credentials led to $500K in unauthorized mining
“There's one company that I heard of that checked their credentials for AWS into their GitHub repo on accident, mistake that people make. Within a couple of hours, they had run up about 500,000 dollars of AWS compute charges as people tried to mine Bitcoin.”
Nov 18, 2022 neutral
Power: Space Technology Will Function as Infrastructure, Not Have a Killer App
“No, I don't think there's a killer app and I don't think there will be because it's like you know, does your average consumer, You know, know about AWS, not really like outside of our technology domain, but like can any of the stuff that they love exist withou…”
May 25, 2023 positive
Ismail: The launch of AWS marked the birth of exponential organizations
“Cloud computing was probably the most relevant here in the kind of we considered the birth of an EXO when Amazon Web Services launched, because now you can take computing off the balance sheet and make it a truly variable cost.”
Jul 21, 2025 bullish
Casado: Consolidated AI infrastructure companies will maintain high profit margins
“For the AI wave, yeah, for sure, like, this is extreme, but it will slow down, and then the consolidation will happen, but I guarantee you'll just end up with these great companies that maintain margin, like, AWS still has great margins, you know, Google still…”
Sep 22, 2025 bullish
Patel: AWS year-over-year revenue growth will re-accelerate above 20%
“This is the lowest AWS revenue growth will be on a year-to-year basis. For at least the next year, right? And it's re-accelerating to north of 20% again because of all these massive data centers they have online with Tranium and GPUs, right?”
Sep 24, 2025 positive
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Aug 26, 2026 positive
Acharya: AI applications convert raw model primitives into industry economic outcomes
“The key point about the application layer is that, you know, intelligence is a primitive, just like buying cloud is a primitive. And what does Salesforce do? It sort of takes the, you know, AWS cloud primitive and turns it into CRM software that delivers an ec…”