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Twenty years later, with 3283 posts and a total of 1,577,106 words, I conclude my time as lead blogger for the AWS News Blog.
It’s been a privilege to “live in the future” and learn and write about the many innovations we’ve made over the past 20 years, including message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing. I’ll just mention a few and leave out the rest. It has also been a privilege to meet and hear from so many of you who have faithfully read and (hopefully) learned from my content over the years. I cherish those interactions and your kind words and keep both in mind when I write.
Next for Jeff
I started my career as a builder. Over the years, I’ve written tens of thousands of lines of assembly code (6502, Z80, and 68000), Visual Basic, and PHP, along with hundreds of thousands of lines of C. But as the years went by, I ended up spending less and less. Spend more time building and more time talking about buildings. As each new service and feature flashes before my eyes, I’m reminded of the days and decades past when I could actually use these great features to create something cool. I changed from a developer who could do marketing to a marketer who could do development. No problem at all, but I love building. The medium could be code, 3D printing, LEGO bricks, electronic components, or even cardboard. Creation and innovation are what motivates and sustains me.
With this as a driving force, my goals for the next phase of my career at AWS are to spend more time learning and using less, building cool things, and creating new developer-focused content. I’m still trying to figure out what form this will take, so stay tuned. I will also continue to appear weekly on AWS OnAir (the Friday Twitch show) and continue speaking at AWS community events around the world.
next blog
The AWS News Blog has long been supported by a great team, both visible and invisible. Here’s a recent AWS re:Invent celebration celebrating the blog’s 20th anniversary (photo by Liz Fuentes, edited by Channy Yun to add others who contributed).
During the celebration, I told the team that I look forward to celebrating our 30th anniversary together at re:Invent 2034.
Going forward, the team will continue to grow and our goal will remain the same: to provide our customers with carefully selected, high-quality information about the latest AWS releases that are most meaningful to our customers. The blog is well maintained and the team will continue to keep you informed as the pace of AWS innovation continues to accelerate.
thank you again
I would like to thank you all again for your very kind words and actions over the years. Once in a lifetime, if you work hard and are really lucky, you get a special opportunity to do something that really matters to people. And I was lucky.
— Jeff;
