And that’s a wrap! | AWS Information Weblog

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After 20 years, and 3283 posts including as much as 1,577,106 phrases I’m wrapping up my time because the lead blogger on the AWS Information Weblog.

It has been a privilege to have the ability to “dwell sooner or later” and to get to be taught and write about so lots of our improvements over the past twenty years: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to call only a few and to go away many others out. It has additionally been a privilege to have the ability to meet and to listen to from so lots of you which have faithfully learn and (hopefully) realized from my content material through the years. I treasure these interactions and your form phrases, and I maintain each in thoughts after I write.

Subsequent for Jeff
I started my profession as a builder. Through the years I’ve written tens of 1000’s of traces of meeting code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visible Primary, and PHP, together with tons of of 1000’s of traces of C. Nonetheless, through the years I’ve progressively spent much less time constructing and extra time speaking about constructing. As every new service and have whizzed previous my eyes I’d memory about days and many years previous, after I may really use these goodies to create one thing cool. I went from being a developer who may market, to a marketer who used to have the ability to develop. There’s completely nothing improper with that, however I wish to construct. The medium might be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronics parts, and even cardboard –creating and innovating is what motivates and sustains me.

With that as my driving power, my aim for the subsequent step of my profession at AWS is to speculate extra time centered on studying and utilizing fewer issues, constructing cool stuff, and creating contemporary, developer-focused content material as I achieve this. I’m nonetheless working to determine the shape that this may take, so keep tuned. I’m additionally going to proceed to make my weekly appearances at AWS OnAir (our Friday Twitch present), and I’ll proceed to talk at AWS neighborhood occasions across the globe.

Subsequent for the Weblog
As for the AWS Information Weblog, it has lengthy been backed by an superior workforce, each seen and invisible. Right here we’re on the current AWS re:Invent celebration of the weblog’s twentieth anniversary (photograph courtesy of Liz Fuentes with edits by Channy Yun so as to add those that have been in any other case occupied):

In the course of the celebration I instructed the workforce that I look ahead to celebrating the 30 yr anniversary with them at re:Invent 2034.

Going ahead, the workforce will proceed to develop and the aim stays the identical: to offer our prospects with fastidiously chosen, high-quality details about the most recent and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice palms and this workforce will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the AWS tempo of innovation continues to speed up.

Thanks Once more
As soon as once more I must thank all of you for the very form phrases and gestures through the years. As soon as in your life, in the event you work arduous and get actually fortunate, you get a singular alternative to do one thing that actually and actually issues to individuals. And I’ve been fortunate.

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