6 Ways Amazon Web Services Does Things Differently From 'Old Guard' Enterprise Vendors

6. Building For Speed

Amazon has built its business for speed, and that's evident in the way AWS develops products and services. One of the ways AWS does this is by organizing itself into autonomous product teams that include both technology-related and non-technology-related resources, said Jassy.

"It takes the right type of organizational structure, and you need the right types of leaders, and the right types of people," Jassy said. "You need the mechanisms to inspect how quickly you're delivering, and to be continually looking at problems, and how you can actually break problems apart to move more quickly.

"I think we built a real culture on the team around bias for action and iterating and delivering really quickly for our customers. You can say you want to deliver quickly, but to do it isn't so easy," said Jassy.