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> "If your kids don't start learning the AWS Dashboard now, they'll be in your basement until they are 35." Mastering even one of AWS services is mission impos
by cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
> "If your kids don't start learning the AWS Dashboard now, they'll be in your basement until they are 35."
Mastering even one of AWS services is mission impossible, due to their awesome, so-easy-to-understand, state of the art documentation. I think we can all go back to our parent's basement.
- jonursenbach 10y agoTheir documentation is always so up-to-date, and easy to discover too! I've never once searched for something, only to stumble onto a page of docs that's 3 years old and no longer relevant. Nope!
- smitherfield 10y agoTBF, AWS documentation is way better than 95% of open-source projects.
- BHSPitMonkey 10y agoAnd infinitely more expensive
- jonursenbach 10y agoAt least with open source projects you can dig into the code for yourself and see WTF you need to do.
- mastre_ 10y agoThey take the most direct way of explaining things too, instead of always going in a roundabout way. Their design decisions do not leave anything to be desired and you're never left scratching your head as to why anyone would ever build something this way especially when there are dozens, dozens of people asking for it to work the way any sane human being would think it should work. Great for kids!
- hoodoof 10y agoAWS is sophisticated and comprehensive, and I think the documentation is excellent. IAM is perhaps the hardest area to get your head around but everything else I've use is very well documented.
- cshenton 10y agoAgreed. But as an exception, I was totally surprised to find how good the aws cloudformation doc's are. Hilariously they are now my starting point for understanding the other aws APIs.