Get fucked, Bezos.

  • Jure Repinc
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    993 months ago

    It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass

      • SeaJ
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        403 months ago

        AWS is pretty far from dominating these days. Ms in particular has eaten up a lot of the cloud marketshare. It is huge but definitely not the overwhelming share that they used to have.

      • andyburke
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        173 months ago

        There are alternatives with better APIs. Or, you know, don’t buy into the bullshit and rack up a few servers yourself.

        Tired of this “oh, but I can’t 😢😢😢.”

        • @glimse
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          503 months ago

          Most people using AWS literally can’t switch because most people work for someone else…I don’t think corporate really gives a shit if I don’t like the cloud platform we use

          • andyburke
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            53 months ago

            The “business” people in charge. Aka the people who don’t contribute and mostly fuck shit up.

            It’s on us engineers to fix their shit thinking. You know they won’t.

            It does not have to be this way. Stop pretending it does so that you don’t have to worry about it.

        • @9point6
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          3 months ago

          That mentality only works in the “adopting cloud” stage. Vendor lock-in is real, and AWS was doing what it does long before there even were competitors, let alone ones with feature parity.

          If you start a job somewhere of any reasonable size with incumbent AWS infrastructure, switching to another provider will be an uphill struggle in the best possible circumstance and in most cases it will be a Sisyphean exercise that’ll probably end up with you out of a job before the AWS bill goes down

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            This is one of the reasons I recommend using any provider that provides you with OpenStack when moving to the cloud.

          • andyburke
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            -103 months ago

            If you join a company where you have no voice, then you’re going to have a bad time and you may compromise your own morality to get that paycheck.

            You can say that there are no other jobs to be had out there, but the current employment rate says you are wrong.

            You don’t have to let the business people make you into an amoral cog in a machine.

            • @9point6
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              133 months ago

              I have a voice in my role, but I’m not going to pretend I’m the only person at the company.

              I’m more making the point that your single voice will not be sufficient to affect direction regarding cloud provider choice in a big enough company, that dice was probably already rolled a decade ago. I’m not saying it’s impossible or anything, but you’re gonna need to come up with an incredible business case for throwing away years of hundreds of engineers’ work building on top of platform A for a costly switch to platform B all for no customer benefit.

              • andyburke
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                -13 months ago

                I mean, vendor lock-in and lack of resiliency to a vendor-specific outage, maybe caused by some piece of their stack you have never nor will ever touch, or maybe the platform CEO decides your kind of company isn’t expedient for their business anymore, are among the reasons why a company should never have ended up in that situation in the first place.

                You can continue along that road of least resistance while ignoring all of the risks. That is up to you. You’ll probably be fine. (Not joking, you’ll be fine. But don’t pretend like this is all necessary.)

      • [email protected]
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        113 months ago

        He makes the full valuation of the WSJ every few weeks via Amazon stock. It could be assumed, then, that he cares about Amazon’s stock price