Redshift and Athena are pretty different products. Redshift is a high performance high cost online data warehouse while Athena is a commodity wear sweatpants an

Redshift and Athena are pretty different products. Redshift is a high performance high cost online data warehouse while Athena is a commodity wear sweatpants and eat hot pockets no fixed cost manages presto. One is for serious business, the other is for data pipelines and casual analytics on cold storage. I would say too, I worked a lot with Andy, Wilke, and to a lesser extent bezos. Andy is no slouch and he earned his job and Wilke earned his loss. But Amazon is a mess, I can’t defend retails business structure - it’s like a giant blank check to product managers. I don’t know I could classify this as cleaning up Bezos mess, it’s hard to see the immense value he created as a mess, I do think Andy has an Augean stable task ahead of him. I think there’s few people capable of that task as Andy. That said, Andy has a giant gaping hole where his empathetic heart belongs. I am glad I’m not there any more.