Q&A with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer on why AWS is easy to migrate to but difficult to leave, how the pandemic compounded AWS' advantages, and more
Amazon is on a mission to own the infrastructure of our lives. The second-largest private employer in the United States after Walmart … Tweets: @ivadixit , @moiragweigel , @abebab , @kunktation , @leftbookclub , @snaidunl , @jathansadowski , @gavinmuellerphd , @jyuter , @katemilani , and @anthony Tweets: Iva Dixit / @ivadixit : “Jeff loves Prime Video because it gives him access to the social scene in LA and New York. He's newly divorced and the richest man in the world. Prime Video is a loss leader for Jeff's sex life.” https://logicmag.io/... Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : I'm excited to finally publish this long interview with an engineer at Amazon Web Services. Featuring: An inside view of controversial work with cops and the military, salty takes on other cloud providers, and perhaps my favorite kicker ever. https://logicmag.io/... Abeba Birhane / @abebab : “[I]f you're looking at corporate employees within Amazon as a source of hope, that's ludicrous. The notion that these companies are going to repair the damage they're causing by having white-collar workers organize internally to me is crazy.” https://twitter.com/... Benjamin Kunkel / @kunktation : ‘The post office is valuable to privatize is because of their real estate holdings. They have great real estate in every downtown of every city in the US. Amazon may be interested in buying all of the post office locations, and we have the cash to do it’ https://logicmag.io/... Left Book Club / @leftbookclub : An anonymous Amazon worker: “We only realized after the fact that we had all this data about who was coming to people's front doors. And then there was a lot of gleeful Mr. Burns-style finger touching, when we thought about what we could do w/ that data.” https://logicmag.io/... Suresh / @snaidunl : This interview is filled with gold nuggets. https://twitter.com/... Jathan Sadowski / @jathansadowski : What a wild detail in this interview with an Amazon cybersecurity engineer. Amazon has a service that does mad max fury road but for transporting data. “Of course I want the giant truck and the guy with a gun to move my data.” https://logicmag.io/... https://twitter.com/... Gavin Mueller / @gavinmuellerphd : utterly fascinating inside account of Amazon's strategy... Logic Magazine is pretty much the best thing going right now https://logicmag.io/... Rabbi Josh Yuter / @jyuter : This is a fantastic read about Amazon. One point I'll add is I heard Amazon started with books bec the culture shift to online ordering would be challenging and books are fungible and relatively cheap ht @moorehn https://logicmag.io/... Kate Milani / @katemilani : Jeff Bezos originally considered calling his company “Relentless.” That corporate DNA still determines how Amazon goes after competitors—and why the antitrust police have come knocking. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Anthony DeRosa / @anthony : Amazon never really grew up. Jeff Bezos still runs it with the relentless drive of a startup trying to survive. Only today, Amazon is a $1.6 trillion juggernaut. https://www.wsj.com/...