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More than a few AWS services lean rather heavily on "being AWS" for their value proposition as opposed to being any good at their job. They do this because the
by jjoonathan 8y ago
More than a few AWS services lean rather heavily on "being AWS" for their value proposition as opposed to being any good at their job.
They do this because they can, and they can because, as you pointed out, once infrastructure and permissions and billing are set up with one cloud vendor, it's usually easier to deal with a mediocre-to-bad product than with integrating an entirely new cloud or tech stack.
AWS is the new IBM, with all the good and bad that entails.
- president 8y agoExactly. From all my years working at "enterprise" companies, I learned that it doesn't matter how useful your product is as long as you get it sold. This is especially true for entrenched products because the friction involved in moving off a given platform is far too high.
- k__ 8y agoI don't know much about IBM. But AWS all the time gets new services, the services get better and cheaper and they never deprecate stuff.
- jjoonathan 8y agoYes, and once you build their clunky, buggy minimum viable product into your infrastructure their technical debt becomes your technical debt, even after the second movers figure out how to do it smoothly and do it right. How do you think IBM wound up peddling outdated crap for exorbitant prices? Exactly the same way. This is how it starts, modern-day IBM is how it ends.
- bg24 8y agoAWS leadership has certain culture which is built for the change and future. But Anything can happen. They do execute fast.