It's entirely meant as a compliment. There's no way I want an infrastructure supplier to seem hurried. Internally it may have seemed as fast as possible, but externally it was never showed signs of being faster than possible, which is an amazing achievement. For our industry, almost miraculous.

And I think you folks were very smart to start small and improve incrementally. As an example of what I mean, take this Slashdot comment from the EC2 launch a few years back: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=329797&ci...

Those are all legitimate gripes, and one by one Amazon has knocked them all down. Had you tried solving all of the problems before launching, I imagine you never would have gotten anywhere. The steady pace and it's-ready-when-it's-ready releases are definitely inspiring to me.