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Bezo’s isn’t progressing tech and innovation? Odd since there are very few areas of tech that Amazon/AWS aren’t on the cutting edge of.
by ABeeSea 4y ago
Bezo’s isn’t progressing tech and innovation? Odd since there are very few areas of tech that Amazon/AWS aren’t on the cutting edge of.
- toolz 4y agoThe only tech advancement I can name off the top of my head from AWS is the dynamo paper in 2007, which to be fair has a substantial amount of influence. In terms of social impact I would say starlink alone will have more impact than any advancements amazon has made. There's no telling how many decades may have passed before people took terraforming mars seriously without someone like Musk - and that appears to have serious potential to save our species some day. I think that's hard to compare to AWS that effectively just enables better monetization of the internet through various bloated digital service industries. Granted I understand everything I'm comparing is extremely subjective, so I wouldn't say you're wrong by any means. My perspective is just very different than your own.
- ABeeSea 4y agoAmazon has a starlink competitor in project kuiper. AWS has made massive investments into solar and wind energy. AWS owns a chip company (Annapurna) producing cutting edge networking, virtualization, and server chips. AWS has a leading industrial IoT / computing at edge platform. AWS played a huge role in the development of Alexa, especially in regard to network latency. Even 15+ years later, S3’s new sharding algo and use of formal methods and proof based testing are as cutting edge is it comes.
- whatever1 4y agoAmazon is also the most advanced logistics company on the planet. Literally off the charts, to the point that benchmarks do not even include them due to the huge gap from the competition.
- colinmhayes 4y agoI've really been enjoying the cashier-less grocery store experience.