Amazon Web Services (AWS) – The deployment of large amounts of resources and budgets to remediate Y2K, followed by the dot-com bubble bust, seems to have made enterprises extremely conservative when it comes to building products. Instead, they’ve defaulted to buying off the shelf wherever possible. In the era of the cloud, fundamentals of building have changed significantly in terms of cost, effort, and time. It’s time to re-examine some long-standing arguments and refresh the thinking on build vs. buy.