“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy to Push Employees Out

Re:“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy ... by lotsofpulp on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:09AM (#29509991)

What has Microsoft innovated? As far as I can tell, they turned into a cloud provider after AWS paved the way and wrung out some extra revenue by turning Office into a subscription.

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Re:“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy ... by cnst on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:47PM (#29513000)

So the whole innovation amounts to simply being a cloud provider?

I think a lot of people overestimate the importance of AWS. It's both funny and sad to see people think they need AWS for the most basic compute tasks that are easier and cheaper to accomplish without AWS.

There's actually many blogs and distributed services that use zero AWS, and have higher availability than AWS, and which don't have to provide a status update telling their customers that "even Netflix is down", passing the buck. When Netflix is down, my site's up, so that's a really bad excuse however you look at it.

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Re:“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy ... by lotsofpulp on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:51PM (#29513054)

I am using the dictionary definition of innovate.

>To begin or introduce (something new) for the first time.

>To begin or introduce something new.

>To introduce novelties or changes; -- sometimes with in or on.

I believe that qualifies AWS as an innovation, the context being comparing Amazon's innovative-ness to Microsoft's innovative-ness since they ended stack ranking.

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