It looks like an Airtable replica to me. I might be wrong. But anyways, AWS getting into no-code (less-code) space is definitely going to impact a lot of small time players. AWS can complete the loop of development to Custom Deployment and It also has bunch of other things in its offerings that anyone would be happy to jump in. I'm just worried about how small-time No-Code players would survive going forward!
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#12My first impression it's like SaaS version of Microsoft Access GUI "apps" (or better said, semi-smart data entry forms).
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#13Is this the first instance of Amazon offering an end-user (i.e. non developer) SaaS style product?
No, there is the Amazon Connect cloud contact center https://aws.amazon.com/connect/
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#14Is this the first instance of Amazon offering an end-user (i.e. non developer) SaaS style product?
I think Connect qualify as well: while you can create powerful flows integrating it with Lambda, basic flows are super easy to setup through the UI, just clicking around.
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#15It's responsive layout Hypercard. We've come full circle.
Maybe more like Filemaker Pro, circa 1990.
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#16More info at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycod...
This should be the real post link IMHO
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.honeycode.aws/.
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#17I'm very eager to see the Office 365 answer to this.
Microsoft is the one that needs to come up with a defensive play here, because this is an area where Excel is used in many businesses both small and large. I'm guessing Microsoft could do a better job than AWS integrating this with Excel and the Office 365 or MS Teams kind of UI to make it feel at home to their users.
On the other hand, AWS is ahead now and likely to start integrating this with the rest of their services if it takes off.
Either way, I think this can be an interesting development for a lot of half baked Excel processes that are everywhere in a typical company.
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#18Is this the first instance of Amazon offering an end-user (i.e. non developer) SaaS style product?
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#19This is like a movie you know 2 minutes in, is going to be a complete disaster, give it another 5 minutes and finally turn it off. You stumble upon it's imbd page some time later to discover it has a 3/10 rating and nobody went to see it. I don't see a single innovative idea in this product and I see plenty that's worse than the experience I had in Dreamweaver in year 2000.
This looks similar to Airtable, except Airtable UI seems nicer. Airtable is a Billion dollar company, tons of people are happily using it.
I am no fan of Amazon, but I do not think it is as bad as you describe. Even if it is half as good as Airtable, this will take off, simply because of Amazon's weight behind it.
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#20Is this the first instance of Amazon offering an end-user (i.e. non developer) SaaS style product?
Below are a few other AWS services that I'd consider "SaaS style". Lightsail is the only one that has a similar SaaS style pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
- Lightsail (ie. self-hosted wordpress)
- Cloud9 (IDE in the cloud)
- Workspaces (remote windows/linux desktops)
- Workdocs (cloud documents)
- Workmail (email)
- Chime (audio / video calling)