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> AWS is on its way down, when was the last time they came out with something exciting?

1. AWS is still vastly more popular and with way more market adoption than another other provider (by a massive margin)

2. Who cares about exciting? I want stability, with decent support, huge community and great tooling.

I think it's a case of YMMV. GCP works for some, likewise with Azure. AWS is just a good workhorse and a solid choice for just about any system.

Although I've always found it weird we have this 'us vs them' mentality with the cloud provider we end up choosing.

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Definitely agreed for Devops. I have been searching for a new role and most the vendors prefer AWS over GCP/Azure. I think it's a 3:1 ratio in terms of roles available for AWS versus GCP/Azure combined.

I use that in my filtering process. Thing is, if you want to make the big money in DevOps, you need to know all the and when to chose them. It's not a winner takes all situation.

Exciting is also a confusing property for me.

AWS has offered a superset of services beyond what I or colleagues have ever been able to apply.

I agree. There's lots of interesting services or functionality in AWS. I find that my company limits what we use, either based on money or lack of forward thinking. Plus, most of the problems we solve are trivial. There's so much I'll never get a chance to use.

By exciting, I mean pushing out research and open source, which eventually makes it into products. I have yet to see anything serious or popular comes out of Amazon. Compare this to Google and Microsoft and you can see a clear difference

> serious or popular

I'm still a little confused. What's not serious or popular coming out of Amazon? What's the different in Microsoft and GCP?

Kubernetes, Golang, Cuelang, Tensorflow ML research in particular for Google

Visual Studio Code, WSL, .Net on Linux, Hololens 2, MRTK, a number of interesting ML tools and research.

Amazon... do you know of any examples?

Largely GOOG and MSFT are giving back through research and open source while AMZN is rarely seen doing this and with little fanfare

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