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Yes, the "idea man" deserves all the credit and everyone else is just a drone there to execute their vision. Sounds like classic MBA culture to me.

I think this is hyperbole. Noone said he deserves all the credit - just that this guy's thinking was the missing ingredient that catapulted Amazon's IT department to be at the forefront of a new industry. There were many big IT departments like that around, but theirs was the first to productize at such a level.

Jassy didn't propose, code, or solely invent AWS in any way.

You're right but Andy, for lack of a better word, willed AWS into existence: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/02/andy-jassys-brief-history-...

That's gotta count for something.

Yes precisely. The MBA skill was to get credit for an obvious strategic possibility that required a huge team to pull off.

Happens on many levels though, it's not as if engineers don't get credit for team efforts.

Cloud is basically managed hosting allowing a pay-as-you go model for resource utilization (compute, storage, etc.). Which was also not really anything new as that model existed on timeshared systems prior to that.