Yeah I think it might be a scale issue.

Like you need lots of servers in lots of locations. One consistent interface.

Also I suppose the Amazon software engineers built tools for themselves and probably re-used some of it in the cloud products.

If I recall the very first offering was S3 and EC2 where you’d just get yourself on-demand storage and virtual machines.

Then they built out all this other stuff on top, like Lambda. They’ve been adding services ever since.

That’s actually a really good point.

Bezos was brilliant in that he identified a market that was real cheap to break into, and his goal was to expand it from there.

Use the mail system and sell cheap stuff people don’t really want to go to the store for.

Most people interested in books don’t really care if they’re going to Borders or Barnes and Noble, cause they hear of a good book from friends or internet reviews. Books are cheap, and readers just want to buy one that other people with similar interests recommend.

However, he originally intended to stick with retail-type or grocery-type business I personally think.

AWS was created on accident in many ways. They built out their infrastructure internally to support hot times of year, like Christmas, etc.

But then it’s all wasted most the year. So someone had a brilliant idea to sell access to that surplus hardware capacity off-season.

Thus the cloud was born.

I don’t think it was Andy Jassy exclusively responsible for that idea, more likely it came from a few folks at once. Bezos is also credited. But that’s why Mr. Jassy is Amazon CEO today.

Freelance sites are often for cheap-skates. The good reviews are often because they solved a lot of really simple problems. Like “I need a powerBI script” or something.

You get what you pay for. You probably do want to pay for it and get an NDA to protect your idea too, at least in the early stages.

It can be hard to find a programmer co-founder as an entrepreneur, because, all us programmers have heard about a billion pitches by non-technical entrepreneurs, and they’re usually a really bad idea or not lucrative enough to bother.

Like no, you’re not going to make a successful, breakthrough social media company anymore. Ship has sailed bro.

Like no, I won’t accept 100 dollars for 40 hours of work that YOU OWN afterwards when I’m making 60+ an hour at my day job.

In any case, I don’t have a lot of advice for you there other than you should try to befriend some programmers. You can keep trying some others on those freelance sites but you might want to contact the higher $ ones with lots of feedback because they’ll take it more seriously.