You really rank Amazon, a bookstore by pedigree, above a 40 year old software company that has created and supported operating systems and complex applications? Interesting.
There’s way too many FReepers that think know a lot about things that just aren’t so.
Especially when it comes to Microsoft, Apple or Linux—and, almost all of it is emotionally-based hatred or fan-boy love.
In cloud computing business today, Amazon is the largest in the world.
They didn’t have to be a “technology” company at the core, but from technology is how their company works and they have been very good at making the technology work for them.
They didn’t invent it, they became good at hiring the right engineers to put the best technology available to work.
Amazon had its first cloud services two years (2006) before Microsoft announced the project that would become Azure (2008) - its cloud computing platform - and four years before Microsoft’s platform was available (2010).
And Amazon, which is not technically a “technology” company, has been in the business of providing cloud services on its massive server farms, for four years longer than has the technology company Microsoft.