It&#x27;s not the same industry as AWS in the same way as Amazon isn&#x27;t really the same industry as catalog&#x2F;mail order businesses of yore (around 1850s I believe that began).<p>You could get limited amounts of compute time on a mainframe back in the day, just like you could order flannel and get it delivered in days&#x2F;weeks.<p>Now you get massive scale compute resources on demand and fresh fruit, veg and almost anything else delivered within an hour.<p>Neither of them are dissimilar from present offerings, but neither are the same industry as their predecessors.