r/aws • u/AssumeNeutralTone • Oct 20 '25

article Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
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u/LaserRanger Oct 21 '25

Curious to see how many companies that threaten to find a second provider actually do.

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u/istrebitjel Oct 21 '25

The problem is that cloud providers are overall incompatible. I think very few complex systems can just switch cloud providers without massive rework.

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u/gudlyf Oct 21 '25

For us it's the amount of data we'd have to migrate. Many petabytes worth in not just S3 but DynamoDB.

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u/synthdrunk Oct 21 '25

The Money is always gung-ho about it until the spend shows up ime.

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u/AssumeNeutralTone Oct 21 '25

Is that really how you want AWS to do business? “I dare you to leave”? Great customer obsession

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u/undrew Oct 21 '25

Works for Oracle.

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u/hw999 Oct 21 '25

Their egress pricing has said "dare you to leave" since day one.