AWS has been systematically hollowed out of technical staff since 2023. Either through mass layoffs or via 2 cycles of performance improvement plans. Often I find most skilled peers in presales or support are not with AWS whilst the ones with most ambiguous work history have been retained at promoted.
Use AWS at your own risk, Paul Vixie is not there to save you.
Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw By Mark Tyson published 17 March 26 Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.
My decade old WD MyCloud still works perfectly. The drives are healthy. The network functions. But the mobile app stopped connecting years ago;Western Digital sunset the cloud services without warning. The hardware outlived the business relationship.
Meanwhile, my family defaulted to iCloud at $168/year. Forever.
That's when I understood: In 2026, your hardware doesn't fail. Your vendor relationships do.
Use AWS at your own risk, Paul Vixie is not there to save you.