Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
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Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I've been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn't attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.
AWS bread and butter is EC2, S3, and Lambda.
The reason AWS is focusing so much on Gen-AI is because they're in the shovel-and-pick business during the gold rush. This guy's beef should be with the over-excited gold speculators, not the general store purveyors of denim and panning equipment.
But in the mean time EC2 hasn't gotten a meaningful feature that's not to accelerate training or inference since GP3, and people folks are backing away from serverless-first designs because cost-control and other features we've been screaming for for several years aren't being addressed.
Edit to add: on the EC2 side I forgot we got Gravaton3 processors like 18 months ago. That was appreciated for sure.