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>>mdp202+(OP)
Amazon is not a secret weapon, poison pill maybe?

This is a company that is actively shooting itself in the foot on all fronts and by the time they realize it’s gone too far they won’t be able to turn the ship fast enough.

>>Action+qY1
People desperately want Amazon to be failing but it just isn't. They made 30 billion in profit in 2023. The rumors of Amazon's demise are greatly exaggerated.

>>BadHum+x02
Yes, yes, unified billing and security generally make up for how much Amazon's technical offerings suck donkey balls and those network effects are why we let them get away with pushing such god awful product. We all know how this works. We don't have to like it.

>>schmid+v92
> Amazon's technical offerings suck donkey balls and those network effects are why we let them get away with pushing such god awful product.

What are we comparing to here?

Google Cloud? Azure? Linode? Openstack? OVH? Oracle Cloud? Hetzner?

They all suck too, just in different ways.

>>michae+Oa2
Individually developed domain-specific products. Even ones that long predate the hyperscaler offerings are often much better... except for billing and security and integration. Not through any fault of the developers, but integrating those things takes work and the ability to reduce that work is a killer advantage of the hyperscalers. But the hyperscalers know this so they invest less in making the core product any good, so it isn't. Reduction in billing/security/integration suck -> increase in technical suck. That's my whole point.