Working at AWS must be fun
You basically reinvent all the stuff - from databases to all avaliable tooling
normal companies dont do that, so there' an opportunity to get deep into some specific branch of applied informatics.
You basically reinvent all the stuff - from databases to all avaliable tooling
normal companies dont do that, so there' an opportunity to get deep into some specific branch of applied informatics.
Also, they hear about the problems some customers have with an existing product and try to (re)invent a better solution. (MySQL->Aurora)
So this give them a bit of lock-in. Come for the EC2, stay for the minimally viable queues, machine learning, containers, etc.
The business model is solely focused on competing with and taking out other businesses, not actually providing any value. AWS is like a pack of sharks.
"The viability of our company, Timescale, is 100% dependent on the quality of TimescaleDB. If we build a sub-par product, we cease to exist. Amazon Timestream is just another of the 200+ services that Amazon is developing. Regardless of the quality of Amazon Timestream, that team will still be supported by the rest of Amazon’s business – and if the product gets shut down, that team will find homes elsewhere within the larger company."