[chipdart]

> AWS is way too bandwagonny these days. Back when it was all engineers they built things on the basis of "this is cool technology".

I don't agree. I think AWS has always been extremely customer-focused, and they scramble to offer whatever service might have any traction at all from customers. It's just that they are already providing the low-level baseline services, and now they are progressing to offer increasingly higher-level ones.

I'm talking about machine learning-driven firewalls, backend for mobile applications, video streaming, edge computing, even Blockchain and now LLM services.

As much as it might surprise you, there is plenty of real-world demand for these services. You might accuse it of being "bandwagonny", but if you take an objective look at it you'll find that they are playing the role of supply store owners during the gold rush. It comes at no surprise that AWS is the one part of Amazon whose revenue is growing massively year-on-year, with the last report pointing to a 17% growth year over year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/aws-q1-earnings-report-2024....

Is that what you would call bandwagonny?