> All this talk about simplicity but still many AWS services are way more complicated than they should be. Agree. It isn't that AWS hasn't gotten anything wron

> All this talk about simplicity but still many AWS services are way more complicated than they should be. Agree. It isn't that AWS hasn't gotten anything wrong. There's plenty services languishing in mediocrity or worse (Ever see anyone recommend Flexible Payment Service over Stripe, or CloudFormation over Terraform?) For services that are popular, it so happens that AWS favours iteration: There's always a tension between what to leave out and what to build, but as Werner explains, AWS prefers its customers drive the roadmap rather than having to invent everything all at once which makes it too difficult to later change course (see: SimpleDB vs DynamoDB) in an industry that changes very fast. Also, simple and easy don't quite mean the same things :) but I get your gripe. That's why I believe platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Firebase, Heroku, Fly.io, StackPath EdgeEngine will thrive despite the existence of larger cloud providers.