I have to say, speaking for Redshift, I significantly agree with the critique.

There are too many simple problems which should have been caught in testing, and the problem which have over time been found absolutely imply unprofessional, even amateurish software development standards.

For example, recently, the format of the version string was changed. This broke a lot of existing software, which had hard coded parsing - SQL Alchemy stopped working - so did AWS's own JDBC driver.

This on the face of it indicates the RS test suite does not include any connections over JDBC.

It then turned out the version string had anyway been inaccurate for months, because RS had moved from GCC 3.4.2 (I think it was) to 7.3. But the version string kept reporting the old numbers.

I can't even begin to describe how many issues - flat factual errors, and profoundly meaningful gobble-de-gook - in the official docs.

The whole thing just feels too much like amateur hour.