As a startup guy and recovering sysadmin, I really admire the Amazon Web Services effort. It started out small and ugly, but they have marched ever onward, slowly improving things and adding new features. Five years of steady plodding can get you pretty far.
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.
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.
I'm always very impressed with the continues release of awesome features. I'd love to see your roadmap! Just knowing that, whatever you need or desire, AWS will probably release it at some point soon-ish, is awesome.
