Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue
by vl on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:26PM
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Do Amazon employees use these tools themselves?
Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue
by bepotts on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:12PM
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I was an engineer at Amazon for a couple years (left about a year ago) and I've never heard of anybody using these services. It's possible that some of the services that we used internally were simply frontends for those AWS services. Having an internal frontend for an AWS service was common.
Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue
by virtuallynathan on Monday November 05, 2018 @05:07PM
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Yes, WorkDocs is used extensively for document sharing. Chime is the go-to chat/meeting/VC app. People use WorkSpaces when they need a Windows or Linux test machine.
I feel like there is a fundamental distinction to be made between infrastructure services (like AWS S3, EC2, RDB, etc) and end-user services (like Office 365). Combining the two doesn't make a lot of sense; procurement for the two typically happens separately, and businesses frequently mix-and-match vendors for infrastructure and end-user services.