Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
6 Sept 2022 Acquired Amazon Web Services
“Their IoT offering, Greengrass. I think IoT just didn't pan out the way that everyone wanted it to.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Sept 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Amazon Web Services
Transcript context
…Chime. Their IoT offering, Greengrass. I think IoT just didn't pan out the way that everyone wanted it to. They launched something in 2013 called AppStream to run mobile apps in the cloud. The commitment to maintaining these things is just completely different in AWS than in the consumer business. The biggest illustration is SimpleDB. DynamoDB comes out, it's way more performant. It has a similar job to be done. SimpleDB had all kinds of cost issues for Amazon, but there were customers using it, so they kept it up. I think one of those customers was even Netflix. They just didn't want to deprecate something that customers were using. Yeah. This is why you'd log on to the AWS product page and there are 200 services there. It's such a good point. It's not worth it to them to kill anything.…
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