ADDENDUM (2024-05-30T01:08+00:00): Multiple Amazon engineers reached out after I posted this and there is work on identifying what is causing this issue. Thank you to all the people who are burning the midnight oil on this.
You worked in ops, but not in a context where your employer could get shamed by IBM in public on the pages of Phoronix and HN. Call it "cloud scale" ops, I guess.
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I worked in ops for 20+ years.
If someone blocks you it becomes an incident, a post mortem and you learn your lesson.
If someone blogs about it, or e-mails you, it gets added to a todo list and might get fixed in a few weeks by a disinterested intern.
Per the original blog:
You worked in ops, but not in a context where your employer could get shamed by IBM in public on the pages of Phoronix and HN. Call it "cloud scale" ops, I guess.
Maybe they have a commercial relationship and dont want to harm it because a bug?