In the 2015 shareholder letter, Jeff states, “Luck plays an outsized role in every endeavor, and I can assure you we’ve had a bountiful supply.”7 We were lucky that it took much longer than we expected for the pre-cloud incumbents or web tech companies to mobilize and start offering their own set of cloud services. By the time they realized the potential of cloud computing, Amazon had a several-year head start.
