2025-04-30 08:33:18 +01:00 by Mark Smith
It's great to finally see some competition for SpaceX from Amazon when it comes to internet delivered from space. Bezos will be sending up 3236 low-Earth satellites to create Project Kuiper, which will beam satellite to consumers globally. Congratulations are in order, no doubt it's a tough challenge to build such a satellite network.
I wonder though if Bezos is aware that Amazon Web Services, his juggernaught cloud provider solution, which i many ways made his current space venture possible, is rapidly being seen by developers as overly complicated and difficult to use. Don't get me wrong, it's still a phenominal service, and has pioneered much of the web infrastructure that underpins a lot of things around us, but many are turning to smaller more focussed infrastructure providers that are much more streamlined. I get the feeling that AWS needs a big overhaul. A massive spring cleaning if you will.
And that thought leads me to wonder what a web platform provider service from X would look like. Based on it's recent ventures in AI and it's know how building UI in it's Telsa cars, you gotta think it would be pretty awesome, don't you reckon? #