Amazon Web Services
also referred to as: aws
part of Amazon
20 statements across 13 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2017 by Byron Deeter · said 96 times in 46 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Ed Lenta (16), Byron Deeter (10), Gabe Monroy (7), Alex Ferrara (5), Ali Ghodsi (4), Mårten Mickos (3), Jeff Lawson (3), Jason Lemkin (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI
- From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
- Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
- The Future of AI in B2B SaaS: Insights from Synthesia and Theory Ventures. Hosted by Jason Lemkin
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- How Shopify Implements AI Across Sales and Product with the Head of AI at Shopify
- State of the Cloud: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners
- Forget the SaaS Gloom and Doom. Just Build. with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- 6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 31 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks
- Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
- Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience
- 5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara's Chief Strategy Officer
- What it Takes to Raise Capital with Christoph Janz of Point Nine
- "The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With Dave Kellogg, ex-CEO Host Analytics": SaaStr Classic
- What's Holding Up Buyers?: Top Obstacles to Making Software Decisions with G2's VP - Asia Pacific
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community
- Building Marketing Channels Slowly to Achieve Massive Scale with Datadog CMO Alex Rosemblat
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi
- The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
- $100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta
- The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box CEO, Aaron Levie and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin
- How To Collaborate, Manage & Work With Developers With Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio
- How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
- The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
- State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners
- Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks
- The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With - Lessons From Dave Kellogg
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first
May 13, 2017 positive
Deeter: Pre-IPO startups frequently save over $1M by refactoring AWS infrastructure
“More and more of our companies that are getting ready to go public will come to us and say, wow, we just refactored our code and saved a million dollars on that AWS bill. We've had multiples of that, actually, in many of these discussions”
May 20, 2019 bullish
Oct 30, 2019 bullish
Oct 30, 2019 neutral
Ferrara: Amazon 2019 earnings transcript mentioned AWS 78 times and retail twice
“So this analyst, Artie Levy from CNBC, took the Amazon earnings transcript from earlier this year, and he actually counted the words, counted the number of times that words like AWS or retail or Alexa were mentioned. Retail was mentioned twice. That's it. And …”
Mar 14, 2021 bullish
Mar 14, 2021 bullish
Dec 14, 2021 neutral
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Dec 16, 2021 neutral
Feb 9, 2023 negative
Monroy: OpDemand suffered from misaligned UI, marketing, and sales positioning
“Now the problem that we had with OptiMand was we were failing to communicate what we were offering. The UI was candy. The marketing made it feel like a vitamin. AWS made easy is, you know indicative of something that's a nice to nice to have, not a must have, …”
Mar 21, 2023 positive
Lenta: How AWS pitched Honeywell on a 50-day application migration sprint
“We spent time with the CIO of Honeywell, and we said, hey, rather than spend a huge amount of time planning a migration and starting to work through this migration, and maybe in two years we'll have migrated assets and we'll know what we're doing, Why don't we…”
Mar 21, 2023 positive
Lenta: Scaling field teams requires writing down and distributing core beliefs
“The thing that matters Is that you have these beliefs, that they are written down, and that you've spent time crafting them, and that you've then distributed them broadly across your organization so that everyone can buy into it.”
Mar 21, 2023 positive
Lenta: VMware, AWS, and Databricks were destined to succeed inevitably
“All of the companies I've worked at, VMware, Amazon Web Services, and now I hope Databricks, they would have been successful with or without me. There was an inevitability. Customers were going to virtualize their data centers. People were going to consume tec…”
Mar 21, 2023 neutral
Mar 21, 2023 neutral
Lenta: The bulk of enterprise cloud revenue comes from migrating technical debt
“That was the stuff that no one was actually really interested in, but it was the vast amount of effort, and it was where the vast amount of money was, and for that, you didn't spend time with the business, and you didn't talk about innovation. You spent time w…”
Aug 9, 2023 negative
Apache-licensed open-source cores are hard to defend against AWS exploitation
“I mentioned before there's some exploitive behavior from the cloud service providers, in particular AWS, and so you have to be very careful about your license if you're doing open source. I would not just have a very powerful core that, for example, is with th…”
Sep 27, 2023 neutral
AI API Costs Introduce Significant COGS to SaaS for the First Time
“I think this is probably the first time for many SaaS companies to have significant cogs. Usually infrastructure has become very cheap with AWS and other cloud providers. So usually it's not something that you have to think about a lot. But now if you're using…”
Mar 1, 2024 positive
Nahigian: Amazon Captured More Value with AWS than Entire On-Prem Storage Market
“Amazon actually wasn't built as a cloud business. It wasn't built as a storage company. It was an incumbent e-commerce business. They just happened to launch AWS, and they ended up capturing Way more value just them in and of themselves than the entire on-prem…”
Apr 26, 2024 negative
Tamir: Direct OpenAI or Anthropic APIs outperform cloud intermediary platforms
“Using a first party solution with say OpenAI or with Anthropic is going to have different performance, different latency than if you do it via an intermediary, like a cloud. So you maybe get some simplicity by not having to onboard different vendors and differ…”
Jul 15, 2026 bullish
O'Driscoll: AI apps will create massive public market outcomes within 15 years.
“But then I still think there are going to be over the next 1015 years, just as Microsoft dominated the client server and PC age and was the operating system, but there were hundreds of client server apps companies that achieved successful and great outcomes in…”