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Amazon acquires Fig

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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by blondin »

i never thought fig or warp would ever work. requiring an account and a subscription to use CLI tools sounds ludicrous. but they seem to have found a silver bullet with AWS since having an account is a requirement anyway.

good luck to them on what comes next.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by jackblemming »

Seems like I dodged a bullet. When I interviewed there the founder asked very generic questions that may as well have come straight out of an Amazon leadership principles pamphlet. I bet Amazon will be a good fit for them. I feel bad for the employees who likely wanted to work for a startup, not Amazon. I’d be surprised if they got much from the acquihire either.

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Post by nerdjon »

Will be interesting to see what happens to this long term, but hopefully means good things. I use the tool personally but really for largely basic things.

The dropdown for autocomplete is far from necessary but a nice addition. Helping with completing commands that I don't use often but know the basics of like "aws s3 cp" is nice. But because of that I could just never justify spending money on it.

Hopefully it isn't abandoned, but maybe this will also mean they don't have to try to find artificial reasons (or bloat) to convince people to pay and can just focus on the core offering.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by scarface_74 »

appel wrote: post #38
scarface_74 wrote: post #19

> There aren't any updates to share at this time on future plans, Wait for the “Our amazing journey” post where Amazon is just going to shut their product down

Yep. Unfortunately great for the founders and (hopefully) for the team, but my first thought is always "another one bites the dust". Here's hoping we're both wrong.

Well, not that I have any particular insight on how acquisitions work at AWS. But as a recent former employee in Professional Services, I do know how AWS operates as far as go to market strategies since we officially came under sales. Even though I was a billable consultant.

It would make no sense for AWS to treat this as ongoing concern. They are probably going to integrate it with their other products - Cloud 9 , the AWS CLI, CloudShell etc.

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