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Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Re: Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Post by scarface_74 »

late2part wrote: post #25
scarface_74 wrote: post #19

I left AWS Professional Services in 2023. Being in ProServe, I interacted with a lot of different service teams (teams that work on various AWS services) and I got a first hand view of their messaging and strategy. Internally, Amazon/AWS has always been a shitty company for employees. But they always were somewhat innovative and long term focused. I saw things going down hill by the end of 2022. They are definitely a…

Were you one of the many overemployed people that also worked at AWS?

I am 50. I have always had a strict policy of never doing two jobs or a “side hustle”. Whatever we can’t do from my working one job, we don’t do.

That means no open source work worrying about my GitHub profile, no BS “thought leadership” posts on LinkedIn. Nothing.

When I get off of work, I shut my computer down and live my life - exercising, travel, spending time with friends and family, etc.

Re: Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Post by rbanffy »

DanielHB wrote: post #32

Really looking forward what all that GPU compute is going to do for non AI stuff once it quiets down a little.

With that much power, we’ll be able to reliably predict a hundred thousand years into the future of our societies and shorten the period of barbarism after the fall of the galactic empire.

Re: Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Post by scarface_74 »

OutOfHere wrote: post #13

Amazon requires employees to work five days a week from the office without paying them extra for it. Even if paid extra for it, it is not healthy considering the number of contagiously sick people at the office, risking a persistent inflammatory load on the body. I don't see good workers wanting to work for Amazon, and I don't see good outcomes ahead for Amazon. It will remain a non-innovating laggard that is trivial…

All of the BigTech companies are forcing RTO. Hybrid work is just as bad RTO. Either way I can’t make an above local market wage and live in a low cost of living area.

Anytime any company reaches out to me and if I ask is it fully remote and they say “no” the conversation ends. I almost ended my initial conversation with AWS in 2020 when they reached out to me about an SDE position that would require an eventual relocation until they suggested I interview a ProServe (no longer there),

I’ve since stopped conversations for a similar position at GCP once they said it would be hybrid. Not that I would ever work for a large company again unless I didn’t have a choice.

Re: Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Post by burnte »

skywhopper wrote: post #29
throwaway290 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is replacing jobs

Which ones? In reality, I mean, not executives’ fantasies.

I spend 90 minutes in a meeting with our CEO and two board members and the one guy went on almost the entire time about how amazing OpenAI Operators was and how we should find a way to replace most of our people with it. All because it was able to buy a plane ticket after he give it his login credentials.

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Post by rbanffy »

dgemm wrote: post #21
teitoklien wrote: post #17

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… Everywhere ? OVH, Hetzner, Cloudflare, Vultr, Linode, Scaleway, Equinix (ok Equinix this can be pricey at lower levels) A million other regional VPS providers, Colocation Hosts, etc ?

Most of these are what I'd call "cloud in name only" providers - everyone uses the term but you would have significant challenge moving a cloud workload that makes use of the higher layer abstractions to these.

There are very few workloads that require more than what you can accomplish with a handful of VMs. Using tools like Terraform makes it a lot easier to abstract away the specialised services.

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rbanffy wrote: post #37
dgemm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these are what I'd call "cloud in name only" providers - everyone uses the term but you would have significant challenge moving a cloud workload that makes use of the higher layer abstractions to these.

There are very few workloads that require more than what you can accomplish with a handful of VMs. Using tools like Terraform makes it a lot easier to abstract away the specialised services.

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Re: Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Post by scarface_74 »

rbanffy wrote: post #37
dgemm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these are what I'd call "cloud in name only" providers - everyone uses the term but you would have significant challenge moving a cloud workload that makes use of the higher layer abstractions to these.

There are very few workloads that require more than what you can accomplish with a handful of VMs. Using tools like Terraform makes it a lot easier to abstract away the specialised services.

Yeah, you haven’t worked with any large companies if you think that.

What’s the largest implementation you have been responsible for?

Re: Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

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Post by Temporary_31337 »

scarface_74 wrote: post #31
late2part wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you one of the many overemployed people that also worked at AWS?

I am 50. I have always had a strict policy of never doing two jobs or a “side hustle”. Whatever we can’t do from my working one job, we don’t do. That means no open source work worrying about my GitHub profile, no BS “thought leadership” posts on LinkedIn. Nothing. When I get off of work, I shut my computer down and live my life - exercising, travel, spending time with friends and family, etc.

Imagine if Amazon acted the same way- oh we already have 1 customer, we won’t bother with the next 6 billion because we have one shittty one already.
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