Amazon Web Services
also referred to as: aws
part of Amazon
10 statements across 9 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2021 by Mike Taber · said 81 times in 24 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Rob Walling (56), Tony Chan (10), Mike Taber (4), Ian Landsman (4), Zamir Khan (2), Jordan Gal (1), Colin Netterkorn (1), Braden Dennis (1)
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2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 25 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
- Episode 734 | The 20 Year Bootstrapper (With Ian Landsman)
- Episode 745 | Reflecting on 2024: Revisiting My Predictions, The...
- Episode 738 | Encouraging Word of Mouth, Educating a Market, and...
- Episode 705 | From Bootstrapped to Mostly Bootstrapped
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 647.5 | Bonus Episode: TinySeed Application Q&A Livestrea...
- Episode 678 | Selling a Half-Finished Product, Phased Launches, a...
- Episode 659 | Indie Hackers' Newfound Independence + The SaaS Pla...
- Episode 651 | From Side Hustle to Full-time & Profitable (with Mi...
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 35 mentions in 6 episodes 6 per episode
- Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
- Episode 550 | Three Years of Grind to Six Figures in ARR with CloudForecast
- Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 535 | A Bluetick Update with Mike Taber
- Episode 562 | "Measure Twice, Cut Once" + SaaS Holy Grails (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- Episode 556 | Rails Autoscale
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike
- Episode 519 | Profit Sharing, Stock Options, and Equity (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- Episode 496 | " The Press Cover Expectations. Don't Compare Yourself to Slack or Zoom"
- Episode 492 | From Zero to $55k MRR to Exit (in 2 Years) with Feedback Panda
- Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first
Feb 9, 2021
Mar 16, 2021 positive
Vollset: AWS waived a massive accidental bill for forgotten database clusters
“I accidentally blew that. It was quite substantial. I think it was a 100,000 or something. And I accidentally blew that by having like a cluster of huge instances, databases that I forgot to shut down. And then I didn't notice cause it was just eating through …”
May 18, 2021 negative
Jun 29, 2021 neutral
Aug 17, 2021 neutral
Walling: Founders Start on Heroku and Migrate to AWS When Costs Rise
“Heroku is a really nice multi-language The hosting platform, it's platform as a service in essence, and it, while it's more expensive than something like AWS or Google Cloud, it is a lot easier and simpler to get started on. And then when the cost gets too hig…”
Aug 17, 2021 positive
Sep 12, 2023 negative
Walling: No-code platforms carry massive platform risk due to non-portability
“Migrating off of no code is really hard, right? Compared to AWS, not that that's a breeze, but if you have code that can run on any server, you can move from Heroku to AWS to GCP to Azure to your own homegrown Dell box sitting in your bedroom connected to a fi…”
Oct 8, 2024
Landsman: HelpSpot SaaS deploys isolated AWS nano servers per customer
“How HubSpot SAS version runs is actually everybody gets a tiny AWS like nano server and everybody's on their own server. We do have a centralized like big database, RDS database with like multi-failover and all that stuff. But we basically deploy it as your ow…”
Oct 15, 2024 negative
Walling: Relying on Google SEO is riskier than technical infrastructure dependencies
“So the reason I have this as number six is that if bubble 10 X their pricing or had a big outage, you could rebuild that. And if you're hosted on AWS or using SendGrid or using WordPress, you can rebuild it. The risks are there, but they're lower than if you l…”