<p><pre><code>    Certainly, a good part of A.W.S. software is open source,
    which means it could be used elsewhere, and companies
    like Microsoft and Google also have big clouds. But 
    neither of them, nor IBM, which also wants the cloud 
    business, created more than 500 new features and services
    last year, as A.W.S. did.
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Not sure about the precision of that number, but the speed and agility of AWS compared to MSFT&#x2F;GOOG&#x2F;IBM is astonishing. I still don&#x27;t quite understand how they do it.