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Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

In the past, AWS has used the data from third party hosted services on AWS to build a similar service and in fact start poaching their customers.

Source: I used to be at AWS and know the PM & his manager who built a service this way. I was hired on that team.

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You should talk to this guy: https://twitter.com/daiwaka

He wrote this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-clo...

As for talking to journalists, I didn't leave with any ill will and don't want to complicate my life. I personally know a friend who got involved with journalists... his past employer came to know about it, sued him... and he became almost unemployable in the valley.

Edit: fixed a typo

> ... his past employer came to know about it, sued him... and he became almost unemployable in the valley.

You might have a family to protect. A home to maintain, etc. I understand. It's scary. But the world doesn't and cannot change for the better if we let corporations bully us into silence. The world will and does change when brave individuals, with the support of society, stand up and blow the whistle.

Lol exactly what support will you be providing? Will you contribute to paying this person's salary for the next 10 years? I wish people would quit with the empty platitudes and the rhetoric.

Your comment reminds me of the kind seen from Russian bots. Everything about what you said matches the algos I've seen. Very interesting.

But yes, I would be happy to contribute to a support fund to support such individuals.

lol yea right now people that call you out on your meaningless blather are russian bots haha

>But yes, I would be happy to contribute to a support fund to support such individuals.

cool you can start by donating to absolutely any charity in need right now.

You should consider going to Project Veritas. They stand by their sources. Maybe it's not as likely to be published if you don't have video footage to back up your story, i don't know... but still it's worth trying. I understand wanting to play it safe though...

Have you ever been tempted to tell people (journalists, government) about it? If not, are there any particular reasons?

Cynical curiosity: did the services they poached from have such abysmal UX/DX or is that an Amazon touch?

They poached because it was a lucrative business. AWS’ sales pitch was that their service was so much better integrated with the underlying infra. Also, they priced out the competition and offered generous discount for bundling with additional AWS services.

Funny (or sad)... I described those very tactics in When AWS, Azure, or GCP Become the Competition: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/big-cloud/

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