[Dunedan]

From all what I've heard over the years, they have a problem staffing the service teams. I imagine with the AI craze that just got worse, as they certainly shifted resources to work on that.

If they really have staffing problems, it'd make sense in the short-term to shut down services which don't bring in much revenue. In the long-term that might fire back if AWS customers loose trust in the services they're using still being there in the future.

The obvious solution to a possible staffing problem would of course be not fire a certain percentage of your employees every year.

[hnlmorg]

I have a lot of grips with AWS, but long term support isn’t one of them.

They’ve given nearly 2 years notice here (more than double what a lot of other SaaS providers offer) and there will be an army of AWS engineers available to help customers migrate too.

AWS do actually discontinue services all the time. It just doesn’t make the headlines because their depreciation process is so good.

Now, if you wanted to discuss their billing, difficultly to navigating the literally thousands of products they offer, contradicting documentation, half baked implementations, cryptic error messages (assuming you’re even lucky enough to get an error) when deployments fail, or the dozen other hurdles that make using AWS a highly paid specialty, then I’d agree with you. But depreciation of services is one of their strengths.

[killingtime74]

Nit (since you typed it wrong twice): it's deprecation not depreciation

[scarface_74]

> In the long-term that might fire back if AWS customers loose trust in the services they're using still being there in the future.

Where are they going to go to get higher guarantees of services not being abandoned? Google?

> The obvious solution to a possible staffing problem would of course be not fire a certain percentage of your employees every year.

Have you worked for a BigTech company and seen their promo doc? No developer would want to work on a dead end service who was interested in their career.

[AtlasBarfed]

Really? I've heard Amazon is so understanding of the difficulty in new hires picking up legacy code, even with the extremely diligent help of the other "mates" on their "team".

I'm sure with the excellent work life balance, supportive atmosphere, nurturing organization, and upbeat attitude, Amazon's staffing issues are just a short blip.

One thing Amazon is known for us a good place for a long term stable career!

It's a good thing that organizations employment is so stable with so many foundational services that so much of our economy depends upon.