United Parcel Service reported a first-quarter profit that beat market expectations and said it will cut 20,000 jobs as the parcel giant looks to trim costs.
I haven’t used AWS for any personal stuff in a while, but as someone who’s been in the field for near on two decades, the institutional inertia behind “cloud == AWS” is frustratingly pervasive over the tech industry at large.
AWS is unavoidable, other clouds are barely a blip for now. But even if the other clouds surpassed AWS, it’s not like that’s an improvement. Google Cloud? Oracle Cloud? Microsoft Cloud? Are you really going to bat for them just because Amazon = Bezos?
and they only kept WF shopping around as PR, eventhough they know its cost them more keeping it around. when Prime left some wf stores and consiladated after they introduced the 9.95fee, they suffered alot revenue wise. because prime was also boosting in-store traffic as well as online buying.
Prime used to be great for lots of things. Specifically heavy things. Now it’s 50% more than even using UPS or fedex to ship something like car parts to my door.
I pay monthly to get free shipping on things that I realized I didn’t even need in the first place. I haven’t bought anything in a month, and realized that I was buying things only because I could, not because I needed them.
i needed to buy something off amazon unfortunately, because of the tariffs i needed to stock up on so i dont need to buy it again for a long time. allergy meds, pain meds,etc.
I cancelled Prime after Bezos was hanging out at the inauguration. It’s all garbage anyway. Let it burn. Good luck to those who need a job.
The larger issue is AWS (Amazon Web Services) which generates more than 70% of Amazon’s profits. The retail side is almost inconsequential.
I haven’t used AWS for any personal stuff in a while, but as someone who’s been in the field for near on two decades, the institutional inertia behind “cloud == AWS” is frustratingly pervasive over the tech industry at large.
AWS is unavoidable, other clouds are barely a blip for now. But even if the other clouds surpassed AWS, it’s not like that’s an improvement. Google Cloud? Oracle Cloud? Microsoft Cloud? Are you really going to bat for them just because Amazon = Bezos?
There are other providers outside of the behemoths.
Not to mention: cloud vendor lock-in is something that can and should be mitigated by intelligently designing and architecting against it.
and they only kept WF shopping around as PR, eventhough they know its cost them more keeping it around. when Prime left some wf stores and consiladated after they introduced the 9.95fee, they suffered alot revenue wise. because prime was also boosting in-store traffic as well as online buying.
Prime used to be great for lots of things. Specifically heavy things. Now it’s 50% more than even using UPS or fedex to ship something like car parts to my door.
The usual Enshittification circle of something good turning into shit once you have users.
I pay monthly to get free shipping on things that I realized I didn’t even need in the first place. I haven’t bought anything in a month, and realized that I was buying things only because I could, not because I needed them.
i needed to buy something off amazon unfortunately, because of the tariffs i needed to stock up on so i dont need to buy it again for a long time. allergy meds, pain meds,etc.
I bought a 3d printer. Now all I buy is filament (plastic)
Will it print me coffee beans?
It will not.
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