Here's my two cents as a developer who has only paid the cost of AWS once for a one-off project (in retrospect I could've gotten more value with similar process

Here's my two cents as a developer who has only paid the cost of AWS once for a one-off project (in retrospect I could've gotten more value with similar processing power with a different service). AWS is established and relatively straightforward. I found the user experience to be pretty seamless. Maybe there are better alternatives but I've found Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud to be absolutely miserable and confusing (the latter more so).WRT Google Cloud Platform I think the main sin is the UI/UX, and if I had to foot the bill I would give them another consideration. I had very limited (but good) experience with DigitalOcean and Heroku, but those just don't have the infrastructure at scale to compete with AWS in my opinion. What do you think is the best alternative to AWS?