Amazon Web Services reviews

No internal growth, blocking promotions despite strong results, YoY salary decrease

AWS used to be on the bleeding edge, releasing inspiring service updates and had this exciting vision of the future, but that vision has largely faded in the wake of GenAI mania. GenAI caught AWS off guard in 2022 and the organic cloud growth shifted to "hard selling" customers on GenAI services, which changed the sales org for the worse. Leaders became hyperfocused on individual metrics and salesforce numbers which put a lot of stress on everyone. In my opinion AWS hasn't released anything really ground breaking since 2021, just incremental improvements to already good cloud services. This culture change put a lot of people into "fear mode" as scrutiny increased, but the daily work was largely the same. But if you know how to navigate the expectations, and being "inspired" isn't your thing, then you can easily thrive at AWS.