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Two things, I think. One, AWS is putting a huge bet on getting huge Enterprise customers to migrate their datacenters to the cloud. So a lot of the new services
by skywhopper 10y ago
Two things, I think. One, AWS is putting a huge bet on getting huge Enterprise customers to migrate their datacenters to the cloud. So a lot of the new services in the last couple of years have been centered around making it easier to transition big Fortune 500 companies' infrastructure before MS or Google acquires those companies and the tens of billions of future ongoing guaranteed revenue they represent.
But number two, I get the impression that AWS has some severe underlying technical debt that comes from original architecture decisions from 10 years ago, and that they are pouring a lot of current resources into addressing those problems, and getting customers off the old crusty stuff. For example, there's a major transition coming to make EC2 IDs much longer so they can remain universally unique, but that's a painful transition. Then there's weird stuff like the "classic" non-VPC accounts where security groups are identified by name. And all the services that don't have tags, and the fact that it's easier to operate multiple AWS accounts than to partition permissions within one account. But they are working on fixes for all these things, but a lot of them are buried so deep in the architecture that it's taking some time. But in a couple of years when some of the new things on the horizon come to fruition, I think we'll see more aggressive iteration on managed serverless infrastructure options.