Nearly everyone who was ever disrupted had the exact the same attiude that you emit here. Blockbuster video probably thought &quot;the market wants what we are renting! physical media ftw baby&quot; fast forward and they are dead.<p>I&#x27;m being dramatic here and I obviously don&#x27;t think amazon will die. But lets re-visit this post in 5 years and I bet AWS is selling a lot more bare metal. Because thats what the market will want.