Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
The author reflects on their four-year tenure at Amazon Web Services (AWS), noting their departure as a relief. They express dissatisfaction with organizational changes and a shift towards a focus on Generative AI, which they feel detracts from customer-centric values. The author highlights the importance of human involvement in technology and critiques the company's current direction.
- ▪The author joined AWS in 2022 and is leaving the company after four years.
- ▪They experienced dissatisfaction due to organizational changes and a shift towards Generative AI.
- ▪The author believes that AWS has lost its focus on genuine customer needs in favor of rapid AI-driven content creation.
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AWS Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out May 23, 2026 8 minute read Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday. I have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company. This past year, while I was doing my best to make AWS play nice in open source communities, there were two main drivers making me unhappy with my job: organizational change and the acceleration of the focus on Generative AI. The organizational change came in the form of the man who hired me, David Nalley.
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