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Anyone else feel like AWS's primary goal isn't actually to make money but to put us all out of a job, but it doesn't quite know how to do so
by nautilus12 6y ago
Anyone else feel like AWS's primary goal isn't actually to make money but to put us all out of a job, but it doesn't quite know how to do so
- mvanbaak 6y agoHow did you come to this conclusion?
- rglover 6y agoNot quite put people out of a job as much as have absolute control over their entire product. They're using the convenience and low cost business model to hoover up developers (who are taking the bait) while not realizing that they're becoming wholly dependent on Amazon. Not just technically, but in terms of their mental model on how to build and deploy applications. Over time, "just use AWS" becomes the defacto "how do I build this?" answer until nobody really knows how to build and deploy an application without them. It's damn clever.
- corytheboyd 6y agoAWS is sold to software companies, are you suggesting they want to replace their customers with... themselves? If companies could profit from purchasing their own goods I think the world would be a very different place lol