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Comment · 2 months ago
PIP's are for useful people who might go against the flow, not for Bezos like.
Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_bra...
quoting from this
"And so, a quiet suspicion starts to circulate: where have the senior AWS engineers who've been to this dance before gone? And the answer increasingly is that they've left the building — taking decades of hard-won institutional knowledge about how AWS's systems work at scale right along with them."
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"AWS has given increasing levels of detail, as is their tradition, when outages strike, and as new information comes to light. Reading through it, one really gets the sense that it took them 75 minutes to go from "things are breaking" to "we've narrowed it down to a single service endpoint, but are still researching," which is something of a bitter pill to swallow. To be clear: I've seen zero signs that this stems from a lack of transparency, and every indication that they legitimately did not know what was breaking for a patently absurd length of time."
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"This is a tipping point moment. Increasingly, it seems that the talent who understood the deep failure modes is gone. The new, leaner, presumably less expensive teams lack the institutional knowledge needed to, if not prevent these outages in the first place, significantly reduce the time to detection and recovery. "
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"I want to be very clear on one last point. This isn't about the technology being old. It's about the people maintaining it being new. If I had to guess what happens next, the market will forgive AWS this time, but the pattern will continue."
Comment · 1 year ago
And has substantially changed in management in the last couple years. Have you read my first post?
Comment · 1 year ago
I think business types vs technical types inherently have different perspectives especially for american companies. One has the "get it done at all costs" the other has "this can't be done since impossible/it will break this".
When a company moves from engineering/technical driven to sales/profit/stock price/shareholders satisfaction driven, once it was not possible to cut (technical) corners, now becomes the de facto. If you push the L7s/L8s out of the discussion room, who would definitely stop or veto circular dependencies, and replace with sir-yes-sir people, now you've successfully created short term KPI wins for the lofty chairs but with a burning fuse of catastrophic failures to come.
Comment · 1 year ago
it will get worse
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a prediction, not a historical pattern to be observed now. Only future data can verify if this prediction was correct or not.
Comment · 1 year ago
As Amazon moves from day-1 company as it claimed once, to be the sales company like Oracle focusing on raking money, expect more outages to come, and longer to be resolved.
Amazon is burning and driving away the technical talent and knowledge knowing the vendor lock-in will keep bringing the sweet money. You will see more sales people hoovering around your c-suites and executives, while you will face even worse technical support, that seem not knowing what they are talking about, yet alone to fix the support issue you expect to be fixed easily.
Mark my words, and if you are putting your eggs in one basket, that basket is now too complex and too interdependent, and the people who built and knew those intricacies are driven away with RTOs, move to hubs. Eventually those services; all others (and also aws services themselves) heavily dependent on, might be more fragile than the public knows.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sorry that bus (the culture mentioned in the article) has long left. The new company culture is more obedience.
Comment · 2 years ago
I guess jassy is trying leave his mark in the company history. Removing Day 1 mentality and replacing it with Tick 1: every time stock market tickers tick is tick 1.
Squeeze the company to the last drop via stock price obsession