No, AWS was definitely not part of Jeff's early vision. And as many people have said, major credit to Jassy for making it what it is today.

How early do you mean by early? I remember Amazon at campus recruiting (Cornell, 2000) describing something akin to AWS and LoudCloud came up. I asked what business a bookstore had to do with outsourced computing and recall a fair bit of vision even at the time.

In light of what we now know, I’m the only one who didn’t have sufficient vision...for not pursuing that job opportunity more seriously.

I was at amazon from 1994-1996. That's what I mean by "early".

Apologies if this question is a bit in the nose, but why did you leave?

Thanks, appreciate the reply from an authoritative voice.

Well the way they're adding services I suppose they could make a "paper" version of it soon.

Would be a fun conceptual project