AWS CEO Stepping Down

44 points by twunde 2 years ago | 13 comments

official post: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/leadership-upd...

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355255

Corrado 2 years ago | |

Last Week In AWS blog post: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/changing-of-the-guard-aws...

habitue 2 years ago |

I was curious, so the context is that current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was the head of AWS and he hired an outside executive, Adam Selipsky, as his replacement when he was promoted. Adam worked at Amazon a long time ago, but left to found Tableau and then sold it to Salesforce.

By contrast, the incoming CEO of AWS is a longtime AWS veteran. But he's head of sales? Should be interesting

i_k_k 2 years ago | |

This is simply not correct.

Selipsky did not found Tableau by a long stretch. He moved to Tableau from AWS, where he'd been for 11 years, and then went back five years later.

habitue 2 years ago | | |

Apologies, this was me doing a quick googling and apparently I misread

mehulashah 2 years ago |

AWS has always been a place of change. Adam has been a good leader, and I’m excited to see how AWS traverses the future. I never would have thought that the AI landscape would have such a dramatic effect on the cloud. Clay Christensen insight in innovation curves still rules to this day.

OutOfHere 2 years ago |

For the 99% of use cases, you don't actually need AWS. I would stick to open source software/services, efficient code and algorithms in the fastest languages, cheaper smaller clouds, AI APIs, and even an in-house cluster for GPUs when needed. Keep iterating. If you're still running say Java with its enormous memory requirements, you are however stuck with the big clouds.

ceinewydd 2 years ago | |

There’s a middle ground:

For cloud-like provisioning experiences and paying by the hour you can use DigitalOcean, Vultr, or alternatives.

Deploying GPUs? Something like CoreWeave may be optimal.

Want inexpensive costs for dedicated hosts? Hetzner, OVH.

There are many, many advantages to using AWS but equally many alternatives that are viable and which aren’t “doing it yourself” in a hardware and network sense.

None of this is to say DIY is a terrible choice either and everyone’s got an opportunity to consider time (initial setup; ongoing maint), costs, and also expertise and ability to do a good job.

OutOfHere 2 years ago | | |

Linode is a good small cloud too in my experience. Personally, I would steer clear of Hetzner and OVH, but that still leaves various low-cost small clouds on the table. In my experience, Hetzner disables accounts without warning if you run at 100% for too long. OVH is good for alpha software that is okay with a week-long unannounced downtime and full data loss.

Due to inflation, the cost equation is rapidly changing to where lowering cloud expenses is vital.

triblemaster 2 years ago | |

You want to hire a 120k/year person to maintain 10 GPUs?

OutOfHere 2 years ago | | |

Why do they need to be "maintained"? Assuming they're set up with good cooling and dust-free air, they just sit there and work. They can perhaps be slightly underclocked and undervolted too at say 85% to run for a longer number of years. Same for the memory clock and power draw of the GPU. If any replacement was needed, it's a small part of someone's job.