"Cloud" computing offerings are hard. AWS, for better or worse has an incredible amount of institutional knowledge on monitoring, metrics, and reliability. It's

"Cloud" computing offerings are hard. AWS, for better or worse has an incredible amount of institutional knowledge on monitoring, metrics, and reliability. It's easy to sneer at this until you really think about it or try it yourself. Maybe this isn't the only thing though.. AWS' sites aren't great, and I love and use Redis. But look at RedisLabs site [0]. The buzzwords make me sick; where is the pricing? The Redis Enterprise "product" page is a wall of text [1]. The RedisInsight link [2] flat out gives me a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" in Firefox because their cert isn't valid. Cookie overlay: check. Obnoxious chat bot: check. Next. Elastic. Again, I've run Elasticsearch myself, it was a bit of a pain. And Elastic's site [3] is slightly better, at least there's a clear pricing tab. "Get Started with Elasticsearch" says "Watch Now", okay I guess it's a video... "Register to Watch"? Are you kidding me? How scummy is that? Okay, so compare that to DynamoDB's page [4], not quite the same, but it's what I get when I search DynamoDB. Pricing tab - yes, the pricing is very complicated, do I need on demand or the other thing? But at least it's laid out in detail without me logging in. Quick tag line ("Fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale"), non-auto-playing video with length before I load it, links to sample code. Great. (To be fair, the AWS Elasticsearch site is not quite as good [5], e.g. no sample code.) Sorry, bit of a rant. I want Redis and Elastic to succeed, and none of this takes a marketing genius. Their sites simply suck for me (but hey, not a CTO/CEO). [0] https://redislabs.com/ https://redislabs.com/ [1] https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/ https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/ [2] https://acdn-live-redislabs.ps-pantheon.com/redis-enterprise-visualization/redis-insight/ https://acdn-live-redislabs.ps-pantheon.com/redis-enterprise... [3] https://www.elastic.co/ https://www.elastic.co/ [4] https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ [5] https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/ https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/