Amazon Web Services
also referred to as: aws
part of Amazon
11 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2017 by Juan Benet · said 64 times in 29 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Dr. Werner Vogels (20), Ralph Goody (4), Ed McManus (4), Tom Blomfield (3), Tikhon Bernstam (3), Craig Cannon (3), Michael Seibel (2), Max Junestrand (2)
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
- Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 33 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- A Conversation with Werner Vogels · Y Combinator
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Amazon Web Services, oldest first
Jul 1, 2017 bullish
Benet: Decentralized storage nodes will beat AWS on unit economics
“Our bet there is that yes, that there's a whole bunch of places and cases where Certain individuals or groups in the world have access to either really cheap storage or storage that's positioned well in the network that is kind of like, you know, somewhere bet…”
Aug 7, 2018
Nov 11, 2018
Werner Vogels: Major investments must materially move the Amazon balance sheet
“Then at Amazon you have to rule that if you do that, If it's going to be successful, it needs to be successful in a way that has significant impact on the Amazon balance sheet. Now, it's not that we're interested in another, let's say, ah, that sounds coy, but…”
Nov 11, 2018 negative
Werner Vogels: Early startups failed due to physical IT infrastructure costs
“So most of those companies that were initially successful around the Amazon catalog
All failed.
And they didn't fail because they didn't have great ideas.
They failed because they couldn't get their IT staff ready, or get the money to actually do, do, do, d…”
Nov 11, 2018
Jul 25, 2024 negative
Aug 26, 2025
Legora hot-swaps Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Mistral models interchangeably on AWS
“So we use AWS and Claude and Gemini and GPT and Mistral kind of interchangeably. The biggest thing there has been, how do we build everything in such a way where we can hot swap the models whenever we want, and also build it in such a way that the models becom…”
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
EU legal AI requires zero retention and human-review cloud exemptions
“Especially building for Europe. You've got to go through a lot of hassle to kind of conform with all the data processing requirements. So, you know, all data hosted within Europe, nothing for training, no retention. Exemption from human review when you look at…”
Jun 19, 2026 neutral