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>I think AWS is early to offer a not-yet-matured product just to get it in front of customers and start gathering real usage feedback. It's not just this. In m
by cheesgrateron 6y ago
>I think AWS is early to offer a not-yet-matured product just to get it in front of customers and start gathering real usage feedback.
It's not just this. In many cases, the services launched are essentially MVPs that were only created to serve a handful of customers' needs. If a huge whale of a customer says they want hosted Jupyter notebooks on AWS (just a theoretical example I picked because I saw someone criticize Sagemaker, but I don't have any specific knowledge of Sagemaker), then AWS will create that for them, but, AWS doesn't actually do "one off" services for a specific customer, so they will also launch those hosted notebooks as a public service.
The result is of course that this service was built with one customer's use case in mind, so it might not serve other customers' use cases very well, which leads to some negative perception. But ideally AWS then goes and incorporates feedback into the service, turning it into a "tier 1" service rather than an MVP. It just takes time.
- kenhwang 6y agoI used to work for one of AWS's biggest customers. This was 100% how we operated, we told AWS what we wanted them to solve, and they would build it for us. When we're done closed beta testing it and getting changes in, it gets released as a public service a year later or so.