Hi, I'm Daniel - the author of this article. Hope this gives some more insight into Amazon's infamous CoE process. Happy to field any questions folks may have.
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Thanks for re-sharing. I was quite disappointed to see the negative community reaction to the original Amazon article. I felt that those knocking it didn't analyze the circumstances that lead to the Serverless Architecture's gaps and just saw some problems with it and assumed "serverless bad".
In reality, the series of decisions made a lot of sense. Take something that exists, try using it, learn from it, and make better decisions as a result of it. It just so happened that in this case, serverless architecture was the wrong tool for the job and dedicated machines were a better fit.
Anyways, happy to see my take being shared. If you enjoy this kind of content, I have a newsletter and Youtube channel where I discuss / make videos about more AWS & cloud concepts:
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Cheers,
Daniel