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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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