V1 never dies. You support it forever, including for customers who desperately want v2-only features but would rather escalate than migrate.

You’re describing reasonable misunderstandings, but they are still misunderstandings.

The cause and effect statements just don’t correspond to reality.

I guess I’m stuck on the idea that the actual facts are relevant. If the question instead is how the dance of optics and PR is going in the minds of people who don’t know enough to doubt what they read, I don’t know what to say about that.

The subject of the media coverage is not AWS, it is a peer organization to AWS that runs using significant amounts of non-AWS infrastructure. They are both part of an umbrella called Amazon but are not at all the same thing.

Maybe your CoT-level reasoning isn’t so robust.

Totally. None of us is as stupid as all of us.

But working in a well-funded company doesn’t make this problem go away. It makes it worse in a lot of ways.

For my org, I’ll be happy to be first in line to criticize some of the notably wrongheaded prioritization decisions.

And the thicker strings sound a bit different as well.

And the fingering for a given melody may just lay across the strings better one way than another.