How AWS Became a Victim of Its Own Success

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 29, 2022

Duration

4m

Channel

Acquired

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Listen to the full Amazon Web Services episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APvj15_YCqk

🎤 SPEAKERS

• David Rosenthal

  host

• Ben Gilbert

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Acquired, featuring David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert, How AWS Became a Victim of Its Own Success explores aWS’s rare misstep: data warehousing and product sprawl challenges The hosts argue that despite AWS’s exceptional track record, it notably missed the modern cloud data warehouse opportunity that Snowflake capitalized on.

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