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Will that not lead to bloat and/or more deprecation of services in the future? I suppose you can tell people "hey this service shouldn't be relied on! We might
by mulmboy 5y ago
Will that not lead to bloat and/or more deprecation of services in the future?
I suppose you can tell people "hey this service shouldn't be relied on! We might get rid of it one day!". But that erodes trust - people just don't fully internalise what that means, they expect the same level of long term support from all AWS services. Soon the common sentiment will turn into "AWS changes its services all the time" when the truth is "AWS changes the services marked as experimental all the time".
- jedberg 5y agoIf you only give access to a few customers I don't think that would be a problem. Especially if you purposely make breaking changes to the API during the alpha period to make it infeasible to use in production. The key is to not give wide access. Google's problem was that anyone could turn on "labs" and use them, and then get really upset when they went away. A few customers getting really early access to a feature under NDA would not be nearly the same.