You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened
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You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened
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#2When can you trust Amazon?
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#3When can you trust Amazon?
From the article:
In all the time I’ve been tracking virtually everything that AWS says about virtually everything, I’ve never once caught them lying to me. They will decline to answer, or give partial answers. But they have never once said something that wasn’t true. When they requested clarification on my article about Zoom choosing Oracle Cloud, they didn’t disagree with the contents of the article; they cared strongly that we told the full story. That counts for an awful lot.
And later:
I know a lot of folks are rightfully skeptical of “PR” in most cases, and saying that AWS’s folks were somehow different was a sign that I was somehow “too close” to the company.
Maybe that’s true. But I have years of examples and backchannel discussions that PR never knew about to back up the undeniable fact that while there were many times that they didn’t like what I was writing about and hoped I’d change my tone, they never once lied to me in order to achieve that outcome.
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#4When can you trust Amazon?
The conventional wisdom is every time you need some online compute or storage resource as well the cloud is the future right?
And if Amazon cannot be trusted whats left of the Public Cloud that is actually trustworthy, it's not like Microsoft have an great track record of fair and honest dealings either.
That leave basically the smaller 2nd and 3rd tier operators and how much do we really know about their track record for honesty?
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#5In my experience you can’t trust anyone when they feel threatened. Maybe some monks in Tibet don’t have a breaking point, but everyone else does.
I think Amazon (correctly) thinks there isn’t much of a pro-social movement in this country. Trump received the most votes of any sitting US president, in the middle of a raging pandemic without health care. There’s a decent chance this unionization doesn’t go very far, and Amazon will be the only company in their space not exploiting their workers.
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#6When can you trust Amazon?
The same time you can trust any company: never. Representative democracy isn't perfect but at least I get a vote. How many people get to vote on workplace decisions of any consequence?
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#7When can you trust Amazon?
The conventional wisdom is every time you need some online compute or storage resource as well the cloud is the future right? And if Amazon cannot be trusted whats left of the Public Cloud that is actually trustworthy, it's not like Microsoft have an great track record of fair and honest dealings either. That leave basically the smaller 2nd and 3rd tier operators and how much do we really know about their track recor…
The answer, I think, is that we shouldn't be putting all our eggs in one basket. Trust nobody. Distribute hosting across as many providers as possible.
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#8I'm not sure who approved those tweets, but it was a serious messup.
Amazon can be anti-union -most big companies are-, but actively trolling popular politicians on twitter is a really bad look. They should know better than wading into a social media fight with nothing to win.
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#9When can you trust Amazon?
From the article: In all the time I’ve been tracking virtually everything that AWS says about virtually everything, I’ve never once caught them lying to me. They will decline to answer, or give partial answers. But they have never once said something that wasn’t true. When they requested clarification on my article about Zoom choosing Oracle Cloud, they didn’t disagree with the contents of the article; they cared str…
Too bad you can't say because they didn't lie so far means they won't lie in the future.
Re: You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened
#10In my experience you can’t trust anyone when they feel threatened. Maybe some monks in Tibet don’t have a breaking point, but everyone else does. I think Amazon (correctly) thinks there isn’t much of a pro-social movement in this country. Trump received the most votes of any sitting US president, in the middle of a raging pandemic without health care. There’s a decent chance this unionization doesn’t go very far, and…
Not exploiting their workers?
Just because they pay descent wages doesn't mean they don't exploit their workers.