AWS is orders of magnitude bigger than Linode in both depth and breadth and despite all the memes, there's a reason it makes so much money and that reason isn't purely "executive stupidity". Does Linode even offer something like SNS or SQS?

Serious answer: Most people have moved to K8s so most of AWS is a few lines of code away.

How do they store data? How do they handle queuing systems? Etc, etc.

You can do all of that

You can do everything yourself but then your entire comment is beside the point.

sigh I'm saying if AWS loses enough good people, their moat won't save them.

It's a bit of an obvious statement, I do admit.