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> the reason why Dread Pirate Bezos mandated services was not because Kubernetes was cool[1], but because their teams were too interconnected, moving too slowly, and Conway's law was getting in the way.

Not quite. Amazon's problem was that they were experiencing too much impedance between teams, and some teams were even siloing themselves to the extent they were creating problems for everyone around them. Bezos' diktat was intended to break through a bunch of petty office politics bullshit that was dragging down the company and preventing teams from delivering their work. The diktat boiled down to basically ordering everyone to grant access to the service they owned and provided to external teams that need it, no exception, and would be held liable if they failed to provide it, intentionally or not