Does AWS actually care whether end users know a SaaS product is running on AWS? Probably not. AWS is paid by the SaaS company to host the platform. That’s the core business model.
The opposite would be more concerning. If I knew in advance that a service was running on Azure, I might think twice before using it. AWS has strong brand confidence, which arguably makes them the “plumbing” of the internet. Most users don’t care or even think about this anyway.
If AWS doesn’t have a single killer feature that makes everyone want to use them, then yes, they become a Lumen. In that case, their killer feature is reliability.
Calling out any cloud provider’s downtime is poor form. No platform is perfect; all of them experience outages. Cloudflare once mocked another provider for an outage, only to suffer a major one themselves the following week. Karma.
I agree with the point about Bedrock. As an AWS loyalist, I found it underwhelming and never went back to it. That’s a real problem for AWS if they want new products to gain traction.
The article is completely right about one thing. AWS needs a Netlify-style product if it wants to be seen as cool or relevant in this current tech phase. They have something close, but as usual, it’s more complicated than it needs to be.
Sharing more: It shattered my prior beliefs about who "I" thought I was. When I read certain passages from the book, I knew it was true. It hurt my ego because it was undeniable. My old belief system was floored. My ideas about myself and others was insufficient. That shattered "me".
In many ways, it probably just helped me to be more compassionate and accepting of my situation and that of others. You cannot really put a price on wisdom like that and I guess for some people, getting to that point doesn't come without collateral ?
Arguably, there is a major contingency that will support Trump no matter what. We know this already. They are not shy about it.
So yes, there certainly would be some level of civil war.
It would be wishful thinking it would only be the people rising up against the government. If we had any level of that type unification then we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.
Very true. This is why Hitler was surrounded by so many people. They went where the power was. Even if it’s not “who he is”, it is who he became.
The nazis were prosecuted decades later. Tim Cook’s actions shouldn’t be magically forgotten once Trump is out of office.
This pattern has historical precedent. Adolf Hitler’s inner circle included people like Albert Speer, a trained architect who was not an early ideologue but aligned himself with power as the regime consolidated control. Speer benefited professionally, became Minister of Armaments, and later claimed political detachment. These claims were rejected at Nuremberg, where he was convicted for his role in the Nazi state.
The fact that alignment can be opportunistic rather than ideological did not absolve responsibility then, and it should not automatically do so now. Accountability is not erased simply because a political era ends.
There's a big difference between being a party member actually in a government position (war related, no less), and being a businessman surviving under that regime. You're not only making an absurd comparison, you're calling for punishment for somebody who hasn't even remotely broken any laws. Can't you see you're being authoritarian?
Law and morality are not the same thing. The apologism for Apple on HN is comically and selectively gymnastics. I think the biggest shame here is the brand identity for a corporation that many of you have self deluded into adopting. Even now the voices that tell you to stop bootlicking them and warning against them get shouted down.
That may be true, but if you think your definition of morality is correct and anybody who thinks otherwise needs to be punished, then no wonder you've ended up with an authoritarian who's beaten you at your own game.
It's also got nothing to do with Apple fanboyism. The same is true for all corporations in the US.
It’s actually the opposite. It’s not about raging regarding the decline. It’s about many things going well and raging against prosperity for things they don’t agree with. They want to destroy America because it feels good, not because it makes sense.
We dropped Dell after almost 30 years of exclusive use for our desktops, laptops, and server/storage infrastructure.
They can never seems to get their shit together.
Going public and then back to private. We stuck with them through that, even though it was a shitshow trying to get a hold of anyone. They blur together, but this might have also been the time when they offered everyone the opportunity to leave and it was a ghost town at Dell.
We stuck with them when they outsourced their support, which we later realized was the best years of support. More on that in a sec.
Outsourced support turned out to be better because we could triage everything ourselves, then tell them which piece of hardware was broken and they would send a tech or replacement part. Basically exactly what we expected for when we purchased premium support.
We stuck with them when they brought their support back to the US. Each tech person wanted to make a career out of each ticket. We couldn't get broken hardware fixed without screaming and begging.
Keep in mind, we always bought the best hardware with the most expensive support level. Precision laptops. Precision desktops. Best servers and storage.
We tried to stick with them when their sales teams basically wanted to remind us every time they don't really want to talk to anyone anymore. Everything is done online and they prefer not to talk to anyone.
We tried to place an order for a laptop refresh, which was going to be followed by desktop refresh, and then a complete server/storage refresh. The sales teams made it seem like they were doing us a favor by even quoting us anything. More reminders to use the customer portal and don't call or e-mail us. That was the final straw and we did the complete refresh with a different brand.
> We stuck with them when they brought their support back to the US. Each tech person wanted to make a career out of each ticket. We couldn't get broken hardware fixed without screaming and begging.
The people I talk to doing laptop repairs and trying to get parts from Dell say that Dell is treating them like potential scammers. They've diagnosed the broken part, everything is under warranty, Dell was previously fine with trusting these people.. But now Dell is forcing them to prove, every time, that the part needs to be replaced.
It's the weirdest combination of time wasting and incentivizing this team to be _lower_ skilled that I've ever seen. Because, I'm guessing, Dell was dealing with too much warranty waste and decided to crack down on everyone.
> Because, I'm guessing, Dell was dealing with too much warranty waste and decided to crack down on everyone.
If that’s the case, then it’s further mismanagement from Dell.
All of the parts get refurbished and go back into circulation. Not in a secretive way. Dell points out that replacement parts for warranty claims might be a refurbished item.
> Everything is done online and they prefer not to talk to anyone.
There was a time where even this was fine as Dell Premier was actually functional. When the bottom fell out of that part of their service we left for good.
Overall, it wasn't terrible, until it finally was.
We had pretty good luck with the hardware. Some refreshes were better than others. We would refresh about every three years when technology was rapidly changing. Then hardware got really fast and it would last longer. We always bought maxed out specs, which meant we could push the life of the hardware. The Precision series was pretty good. Some models had problems and others were rock solid. We always had spares on purpose, which I think helped save our sanity when dealing with Dell support.
You had me until, “Such as life.” The point here is there is no reason life should be this way and that is why people have a problem with it.
Sadly, agreed, most should expect to get shot to death by police in any given situation. Most become a police officer with the sole purpose of being able to shoot someone and they are continuously looking for any opportunity to do so. They are literally a junkie waiting to get their fix.
Sadly, agreed, pitbulls should not be kept as pets and certainly not when children are present. Most people can’t control their pets, let alone a pitbull. Also, pitbull owners know they are choosing a pitbull for the sole purpose of proving others wrong, or the opportunity to blame someone else if their pitbull attacks someone. Weirdly like police.
My takeaway, right or wrong, is that I agree with the overall point about “betting” and how we’ve seen this trend over the last handful of years. What this is really revealing is the wealthy taking advantage of the less fortunate, which seems to be rapidly growing.
It’s no different than telling a desperate person to get on a boat where work and income are waiting for them, but in reality they will be enslaved once they reach their destination. We are rapidly heading this direction worldwide as more and more people become desperate and those in power will be waiting to take advantage of the situation.
The opposite would be more concerning. If I knew in advance that a service was running on Azure, I might think twice before using it. AWS has strong brand confidence, which arguably makes them the “plumbing” of the internet. Most users don’t care or even think about this anyway.
If AWS doesn’t have a single killer feature that makes everyone want to use them, then yes, they become a Lumen. In that case, their killer feature is reliability.
Calling out any cloud provider’s downtime is poor form. No platform is perfect; all of them experience outages. Cloudflare once mocked another provider for an outage, only to suffer a major one themselves the following week. Karma.
I agree with the point about Bedrock. As an AWS loyalist, I found it underwhelming and never went back to it. That’s a real problem for AWS if they want new products to gain traction.
The article is completely right about one thing. AWS needs a Netlify-style product if it wants to be seen as cool or relevant in this current tech phase. They have something close, but as usual, it’s more complicated than it needs to be.
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