[causal]

I sometimes suspect AWS deliberately looks for ways to extract low-overhead tasks into dedicated services for the simple reason that many people will pay for the service without thinking about whether they really need it.

[llmslave]

Its very easy to add AWS services, but after building them into a stack over a few years, its basically impossible to remove them

[bithavoc]

yes, one word: IAM

[swyx]

same guys worked on temporal as aws step functions. they just learned over time.