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They should... put work into sacrificing revenue?

If you have a local “digital twin” of the service, it makes it much easier to develop against using AI. This would likely drive adoption.

It's even easier for their revenue if you have to provision dev AWS environments for everyone.

Totally agree that AI coding makes this even more important. We are working on a coding agent-first cloud and a large part of that is ensuring everything runs locally so folks can let their coding agents define the infra and test it all

It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue.

It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.

It's a fair point but iff you neglect that the overwhelming revenue drivers for these services are large corps who are already locked-in. Devx doesn't matter at all once you're there.

The myopathy among us "online people" is assuming number of voices here and elsewhere correlate to revenue.

It does not.

If it's irrelevant whether or not individual developers are on board, why are Amazon offering a free plan?

Just fyi, myopathy is a general term for diseases that affect some types of muscles, while myopia is short-sightedness -- assuming the latter is what you were going for!

Thanks!

Without the infrastructure behind it to make it make sense, cloud platforms just seem like convoluted ways of storing data and launching applications/VMs to me.

The only functional use of a tool like this to me would be to learn how to use AWS so that I can work for people who want me to use AWS. Would that not be to Amazon's benefit?

Why would an emulator sacrifice revenue? It's like saying minecraft destroys construction businesses

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