#reInvent2019 thoughts:
1. AWS is the best choice for most organizations, and it continues to innovate at a faster rate than anyone else.
2. Biggest upside and downside of AWS remains the decentralization. Net positive; see #1.
3. Second biggest downside remains complexity. 1/
1. AWS is the best choice for most organizations, and it continues to innovate at a faster rate than anyone else.
2. Biggest upside and downside of AWS remains the decentralization. Net positive; see #1.
3. Second biggest downside remains complexity. 1/
4. AWS really needs someone at the VP level (like @adrianco has done for open source) to influence (but not dictate) easier, more-opinionated ways of using the services for the 80% use case (e.g., CRUD apps). ... 2/
@adrianco Many in the serverless and mobile groups are essentially doing this (way too many to name in even 3 tweets), but there is definitely not enough AWS-wide understanding within the services teams of what the future of efficient, scalable dev on AWS is and should be. 3/
@adrianco 5. Obvious example of why this needs to be at VP-level: consider the difficulty of even signing up for an AWS account; compare to Digital Ocean or Firebase. And there's no reason why AWS shouldn't have a @martinfowler-level influence on software dev... but it doesn't today. end/
