Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
Summary
A personal reflection by Tarus Balog on leaving AWS after four years. He cites organizational changes and a shift toward Generative AI as key drivers of his departure, argues that AWS lost its customer-centric focus, and questions the push to produce AI-driven content at the expense of human-centered open source values. The post ends with a renewed interest in returning to open source roots and a desire to see AWS run open source workloads more responsibly.