Comment by JCM9
Some good stuff here. I wish AWS would just focus on these boring, but ultimately important, things that they’re good at instead of all the current distractions trying to play catch up on “AI.” AWS leadership missed the boat there big time, but that’s OK.
Ultimately AWS doesn’t have the right leadership or talent to be good at GenAI, but they do (or at least used to) have decent core engineers. I’d like to see them get back to basics and focus there. Right now leadership seems panicked about GenAI and is just throwing random stuff at the wall desperately trying to get something to stick. Thats really annoying to customers.
They continue to have large teams working on core stuff. It’s just that they’re working at such a low level (like high perf virtualized networking on their custom network cards) that most people don’t hear about it or care that much.