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Amazon Web Services

also referred to as: aws

part of Amazon

26 statements across 24 episodes · 11 bullish · 0 bearish · 24 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2017 by Shlomi Gian · said 197 times in 112 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Latka (37), Vlad Malinan (9), Enrique Dubugras (7), Kevin Davis (6), Robert Frederick (4), Gilles Domartini (4), Shlomi Gian (3), Ron Jones (3)

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2025 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2024 21 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
2023 8 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
2022 30 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
2021 23 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
2020 24 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
2019 20 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
2018 27 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
2017 21 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
2016 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first

Aug 16, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gian expects PacketZoom's gross margins to hit 95% via AWS reselling
“We're, you know, we're anything between I would say, 60 to 80. But it will be very different next quarter as we're becoming We're already an AWS partner, we're gonna become an AWS reseller, we're gonna get this price down, and we're, we have some great ideas a…”
Shlomi Gian Aug 16, 2017 ▶ 21:18 753: With His Tool, Mobile Browsing on Spotty Wifi Doesn't Suck
Mar 28, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fulkerson: MindTouch processes about 1B events monthly
“And then if you look at like our number of events that we do monthly, we're doing like a billion events monthly.”
Aaron Fulkerson Mar 28, 2018 ▶ 11:33 977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+
Apr 12, 2018 bullish
Opinion
Holliday: Citia's enterprise customer retention is permanent like Oracle or AWS
“I think permanent myself. I mean, I can be proved wrong, but I think it's just like an Oracle or AWS”
Linda Holliday Apr 12, 2018 ▶ 19:03 992 Is She Building The New Wordpress for Enterprise?
Oct 23, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Assembla isolates EU data on Frankfurt AWS instances for compliance
“So we call it a data center, but it's large instances that we're running in Frankfurt, completely separated from the, from our US data which are targeting specifically into the EU base.”
Paul Lynch Oct 23, 2018 ▶ 21:01 1186 Why Assembla Sold to Venture Equity Firm, Using GDPR to Hit 60% yoy Growth
Feb 6, 2019
Assertion Supported
Agarwal: Cvent powers conferences for Dreamforce and AWS
“We do, you know, helping Dreamforce, AWS, their large conferences of 50, 80, 90,000, whatever, 100,000”
Reggie Agarwal Feb 6, 2019 ▶ 24:21 1292 How Cvent Hit $500m Bookings with Eyes on $1B in Meeting and Event Space
Mar 17, 2019
Assertion Supported
Prince: Cloudflare does not run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
“So we're not running on top of AWS or on top of Azure or Google. We actually had to build the network out ourselves.”
Matthew Prince Mar 17, 2019 ▶ 5:05 1331 How CloudFlare Broke $100m in ARR Securing The Internet, No $2.5B Amazon Acquisition
Oct 16, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Brown: LifeOmic prices software based on AWS compute and storage metrics
“We basically charge based upon the amount of data and the sort of computational load that it imposes. [357] Podcast Host: Measured by what? [359] Don Brown: I'm sorry? [360] Podcast Host: What's the actual metric you're measuring? [361] Podcast Host: Computati…”
Don Brown Oct 16, 2019 ▶ 5:49 1544 1 Day After $1.4B Exit He Launches LifeOmic to Tackle Precision Health Using AI and Machine Learning
Nov 11, 2019
Disclosure
Broadway: PlatformOS prices purely on usage like AWS
“It's purely usage. Very similar to the AWS model. So we just go based on how many computational cycles, how many API calls, how much data is uploaded.”
Adam Broadway Nov 11, 2019 ▶ 14:45 1570 How This $2m ARR CEO Gives Enterprises Their Own Version of Facebook
Nov 14, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ActivTrak reached $1.5M ARR with only two founders and an AWS account
“We were able to reach 1.5 million in annual recurring revenue basically staying in like two guys in the track mode mode. Like it was just two of us and AWS account and that's it.”
Anton Seidler Nov 14, 2019 ▶ 14:51 1573 How Activtrak Hit $4.5M ARR With No Outside Capital
Jan 26, 2020 positive
Opinion
Owens: Software needs a business infrastructure equivalent to AWS
“We actually think that there is an opportunity for somebody to build kind of this almost sort of like the second most important piece of infrastructure that software company buys, which is sort of like the business infrastructure to AWS's technical infrastruct…”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 7:06 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
Mar 13, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Some Brex Customers Charge Millions Monthly on AWS and Google Ads
“We have like actually customers paying millions of dollars a month in AWS bills or Google ad spend through one Rex card.”
Enrique Dubugras Mar 13, 2020 ▶ 9:39 1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
Jun 14, 2020 positive
Insight
Moore: AWS and Salesforce qualify as true platforms
“When I think of platforms, I think of like, you know, Amazon web services. I think Salesforce is a platform because their app store is a true, true there are companies that are entirely existent because the only thing they do is provide technology on top of Sa…”
Bob Moore Jun 14, 2020 ▶ 18:36 RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker
Jun 17, 2020 positive
Insight
Cloud credits swung early startup infrastructure economics by $200,000
“Today you can get a 100,000 dollars in credits to be on the internet. Like you can get a 100,000 dollars from AWS or from Google cloud and probably also from Microsoft cloud, right? So, so we've swung from being negative a 100,000 to being positive a 100,000. …”
Albert Wenger Jun 17, 2020 ▶ 18:56 Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
Aug 19, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Baird Hall says AWS video generation and transcription costs have plunged
“The transcription cost, it's really gotten more efficient over the last couple years. So between that and just video generation through AWS's tools has gotten a lot cheaper.”
Baird Hall Aug 19, 2020 ▶ 5:08 Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits!
Nov 26, 2021 bullish
Assertion Supported
Miles: Salad's compute costs one-fifth of AWS spot instances
“The cost of our compute is around one fifth, again, per teraflop per hour of an AWS spot instance.”
Bob Miles Nov 26, 2021 ▶ 5:18 Gamers contribute GPU To this SaaS Marketplace Raising $15m at $70m Valuation with $5m in Revenue
Dec 6, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrawlQ operates on just $7,500 in total monthly expenses
“Everything, everything, including my AWS or other type of infrastructure cost GPT, counting together, 7500 is the total run rate.”
Harish Kumar Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 11:15 Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
Mar 21, 2022 neutral
Insight
Medina: Healthy SaaS companies should maintain 65% to 80% gross margins
“Most SaaS companies will have roughly, like, assuming there's nothing weird, right? Like, you don't have a big component of, like, you know professional services, et cetera. Like, assuming all that, you're, you know, a good, healthy SaaS company should be runn…”
Manny Medina Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 12:21 Look Back: Can Outreach beat Vista Backed Salesloft?
Aug 29, 2022
Disclosure
Jones: AWS and Deloitte are G2Xchange customers
“AWS is one of our customers. They sell, you know, lots of cloud services, as you know, to the government. Deloitte, another customer of ours management consulting, technology implementation.”
Ron Jones Aug 29, 2022 ▶ 2:11 Mini PE firm grow new acquisition to $2m ARR for gov contracting SaaS
Sep 19, 2022 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Harris: YouCanBookMe runs at a 95% gross profit margin
“In the UK, we are only required to report on direct costs like AWS and stuff. So for us, we run a sort of a 95% gross profit margin.”
Bridget Harris Sep 19, 2022 ▶ 6:20 How Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe Hit $5m using team profit sharing as internal motivation
Sep 20, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Major cloud data warehouses now offer native data clean room capabilities
“What's interesting is, is a lot of the cloud data warehouses do this, are doing this now. So AWS, GCP Microsoft are trying to do this, and that's where data sharing now happens at the cloud data layer. And then Snowflake and Databricks have capabilities around…”
Matt Kilmartin Sep 20, 2022 ▶ 1:45 Venture Studio Spinout Hits $250m Valuation for Clean Data Room SaaS
Nov 9, 2022 positive
Insight
Fritsch: Building software on top of an ERP enables leaner engineering
“Ah, and again, we can operate a little bit leaner, because we are built on top of an ERP, and then we host on AWS.”
Charlie Fritsch Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 20:54 Partnering with an ERP as an OEM VAR-deal terms, code ownership, exit value impact?
Mar 10, 2023
Disclosure
ApuTime uses $100k AWS credits to absorb AppSumo lifetime user costs
“Currently, we, we've blocked all the all the AppSumo customers or on our AWS account with which is which is with a hundred K activate program. So we don't have any cost with that during this and next year.”
Martin Alansky Mar 10, 2023 ▶ 12:09 $50k MRR in 2 Months, How He Closed $18k Customers Fast
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Domartini: Cleeng restructured pricing by benchmarking Salesforce, Looker, and AWS
“Large part of the reorganization on pricing is when we signed the Looker, when we signed the Salesforce. You know, you really go deep as a CEO to understand, okay, but why Salesforce is building like this? Why Looker is building like this? Why AWS is being lik…”
Gilles Domartini Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 18:35 Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
Dec 17, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Malinan: SpeedSize Spent Nearly Two Years Finalizing AWS Partnership
“It took us almost, ah, two years to fully, ah, enroll the proper partnerships with AWS.”
Vlad Malinan Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 20:12 Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story
Dec 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
AWS offers SpeedSize to customers due to lacking native media compression
“We are fully based on AWS, and we are a premium partner of AWS. And AWS, since they do not have native image and video compression, AWS offers speed size as a solution for image and video compression as well.”
Vlad Malinan Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 9:55 Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story
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