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AWS/Amazon might be great for customers but it's a horrible place to work. Having worked in AWS for 3 years, almost all services are half baked, tech debt filled in all parts of the code. But hey, we never see any issue? It's because it has army of oncallers who are manually running commands and fixing issues.

I used to work in one of the DB services and we used to get 20+ pages (sev2) every day. Due to insane amount of pages every day, we used to have daily on-call rotations.

High Level Features:

1. VMs are dual-stack.

2. Subnets can have either GUA or ULA addressing along with IPv4.

3. Subnets are /64 and VMs get /96 address.

4. ULA addressing is useful for intra VPC traffic.

5. GUA addressing is useful if internet facing connection is required.

6. VMs can have multiple IPv6 NICs.

yes. you can use /64 subnets to define your broader level firewall rules.

This is very true. It doesn't lead to PIP always but whole amazonian culture makes it difficult for the person to stay in team/company.

Writing COE is kind of admission of guilt and I have definitely seen promotions getting delayed. During perf-review, lot of times managers of other teams raise COE has a point against the person going for promotion.

Have worked at AWS before, and I can attest to this. Whenever we had an outage, our director and senior manager would take a call on whether to update the dashboard or not.

Having 'red' dashboard catches lot of eyes, so people responsible for making this decision always look at it from political point of view.

As a dev oncall, we used to get 20 sev2s per day (an oncall ticket which needs to be handled within 15 mins) so most of the time things are broken, its just that its not visible to external customers through dashboard.

ex-AWS employee here. I worked in one of the managed services (can't say which one because it might reveal my identity). In Managed services, instances are created in AWS VPC so employees have access to underlying VM.

We have used that capability to get stats about the type of customer workloads, and devised feature products based on that.

Having worked at amazon for 3 years. I don't find it surprising. Amazon, in general, is known for not taking good care of its employees. My experience has been as SWE and its a well know fact of there that if you and your manager don't get along then you have limited time to move to a different team or company before you get PIPed.