I think you’re making some assumptions here about the cause of the outage that are too much of a stretch. It is very possible they laid off some critical people with institutional knowledge that hindered the outage resolution but assuming that was part of a AI initiative is a bit too far.
Amazon’s cap ex is exploding (due to data center investments) and they’re attempting to offset it with layoffs so they can hit their numbers.
The denizens of the C-Suite have street smarts but are not smart. We get to watch them compete for who can waste the most shareholder capital chasing media narratives. First we had BP chasing the mirage of a rapid energy transition. Then was had EV mania. The big auto companies may have lost more dollars, but as a fraction of shareholder capital it seems that Hertz was the winner. Now we have the "AI will replace all employees rapidly" narrative. It seems that Amazon may be in the lead here.
I think you’re making some assumptions here about the cause of the outage that are too much of a stretch. It is very possible they laid off some critical people with institutional knowledge that hindered the outage resolution but assuming that was part of a AI initiative is a bit too far.
Amazon’s cap ex is exploding (due to data center investments) and they’re attempting to offset it with layoffs so they can hit their numbers.
Thanks for confirming Will’s point!
It can’t be DNS, it was DNS is a famous saying in the tech community. https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/
DNS famously can cause weird issues that are difficult to debug. Not an excuse for Amazon. I feel for the workers try to keep AWS up & running.
The denizens of the C-Suite have street smarts but are not smart. We get to watch them compete for who can waste the most shareholder capital chasing media narratives. First we had BP chasing the mirage of a rapid energy transition. Then was had EV mania. The big auto companies may have lost more dollars, but as a fraction of shareholder capital it seems that Hertz was the winner. Now we have the "AI will replace all employees rapidly" narrative. It seems that Amazon may be in the lead here.
Intelligence is powerless before hubris.