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No. I worked there, and saw the services available to developers. There's a dizzying array, and many of those services are quite excellent. However, they're dee
by notacoward 4y ago
No. I worked there, and saw the services available to developers. There's a dizzying array, and many of those services are quite excellent. However, they're deeply intertwined with each other and often quite idiosyncratic. That's going to be a hard sell in a market where people are already used to the Amazon or Google or Microsoft versions.
There's a lot of automation, but it's mostly for the team running the service itself. If you're a user of a service, you're likely to be quite reliant on knowing a member of that team to get new allocations or resolve problems. This is fine for developers within a single org, but building out the self-service and multitenancy necessary to make it palatable to outside users would be a major undertaking even if all the oxygen weren't being sucked out of the rest of the company by metaverse stuff.
Lastly, that capacity is already being actively used and they're barely keeping up with building out enough new capacity. Where are the resources going to come from to support outside users?
It just doesn't make sense for them to try, technically or logistically or culturally. The last thing they need is more distractions.