[iknownothow]

S3 has much bigger fish in its sight than the measely vector db space. If you see the subtle improvements in features of S3 in recent years, it is clear as day, at least to me, that they're going after the whale that is Databricks. And they're doing it the best way possible - slowly and silently eating away at their moat.

AWS Athena hasn't received as much love for some reason. In the next two years I expect major updates and/or improvements. They should kill off Redshift.

[antonvs]

> … going after the whale that is Databricks.

Databricks is tiny compared to AWS, maybe 1/50th the revenue. But they’re both chasing a big and fast-growing market. I don’t think it’s so much that AWS is going after Databricks as that Databricks happens to be in a market that AWS is interested in.

[iknownothow]

I agree, Databricks is one of many in the space. If S3 makes Databricks redundant, then they also make others like Databricks redundant too.