Reading up on Amazon Web Services
8 deep · digging since nov 19, 25
- AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
Ben Evans's Spring 2026 deck argues AI is the next platform shift, with models becoming infrastructure and value moving up-stack to apps, workflows, and proprietary data.
- Why most product tours get skipped
Users skip product tours because they interrupt task completion, and commenters suggest unobtrusive help or intuitive design instead.
- Amazon Built a Massive Supply Chain for Itself. Now It’s for Hire. - WSJ
Amazon is opening its logistics network to all businesses as Amazon Supply Chain Services, aiming to replicate the AWS model in supply chain management.
- the broken economics of databases - by almog gavra
Database vendors charge high prices but earn slim profits because they must recover large fixed costs, constantly innovate to avoid commoditization, and compete against cloud providers who own the underlying infrastructure.
- AWS and Microsoft are selling much more than cloud services - Bert Hubert's writings
Large cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft succeed in corporate markets by selling “blame absorption” and risk-free choices, not just technical infrastructure.
- Amazon takes on AI's biggest nightmare: Hallucinations - Fast Company
Amazon uses automated reasoning—formal logic that mathematically proves correctness—to catch and correct AI hallucinations in its generative AI products and agentic AI projects.
- Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet | Internet
A Cloudflare outage caused widespread error messages across the internet for several hours before the company resolved the issue.