From the very start of Amazon Web Services, we made a decision that if we wanted to be able to serve a lot of Amazon's consumer competitors... that we had to make Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services own separable business with a different leadership team and where Amazon's consumer businesses were an important customer but just one of many important external customers, we treat Amazon's consumer business as an external customer.

Andy Jassy

If you want more protection, which I think is totally reasonable, the federal government should regulate it, i wish they'd hurry up -- if they don't, you're going to have 50 different laws in 50 different states.

If we're forced to do it, I guess we'd have to do it. by Andy Jassy

If we're forced to do it, I guess we'd have to do it.

If Read MoreHundreds of employees government doesn't have access to all of the most modern and sophisticated technology the private sector has, Read MoreHundreds of employees're in trouble, any government department that's following the law, Read MoreHundreds of employees will serve.

The pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine have brought unusual growth and challenges.

I think it's scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in Amazon CEO Andy Jassy businesses and potential credit ratings if we don't make sure that we raise that debt ceiling.

Solving this challenge cannot be accomplished by one company, it's one of the reasons we're so excited to announce that more than 200 businesses have joined us in signing The Climate Pledge — a commitment to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early.

In the beginning, a lot of those same companies would pooh-pooh the cloud and say that nobody was going to use it for anything interesting.

I took my last final exam at( Harvard Business School) the first Friday in May in 1997, and I started at Amazon the next Monday.