I remember being interested in their architecture when I attended re:Invent in 2018. I went to four separate Netflix talks given by four separate people with wildly different titles, teams and responsibilities. The talks had different titles indicating a variety of topics covered. Two of these talks weren't even obviously/outwardly Netflix-focused from the description -- they were just talks supposedly covering something I was curious about.
All four speakers ran the exact same slide deck with a different intro slide.
All four speakers claimed the same responsibility for the same part of the architecture.
I was livid. I also stopped attending talks in person entirely because of this, outside of smaller more focused events.
I don't know because I have not been to AWS Re:invent. But from what I have seen at workplace is that trip to this event is equivalent of corporate junket for mid-level developers who happened to be manager's favorite.
All four speakers ran the exact same slide deck with a different intro slide. All four speakers claimed the same responsibility for the same part of the architecture.
I was livid. I also stopped attending talks in person entirely because of this, outside of smaller more focused events.