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I mean has AWS ever been easy to use outside of S3? If they were simple, companies like Vercel and Heroku would not even exist (both runs on AWS infrastructure)
by KRAKRISMOTT 4y ago
I mean has AWS ever been easy to use outside of S3? If they were simple, companies like Vercel and Heroku would not even exist (both runs on AWS infrastructure).
- sokoloff 4y agoI feel like SQS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, (largely hidden) SimpleDB, and vanilla Lambda and EC2 are pretty damn easy. (IAM is admittedly semi-baroque layer holding them all together. I struggle to call that easy.)
- matus_congrady 4y agoThe complexity and amount of AWS-specific knowledge required to efficiently use it is pretty much absurd. Even though AWS offers multiple different solutions (AWS SAM, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CDK, AWS App Runner) that in theory should make consuming AWS services easier, these options still assume you understand and know how to use AWS. In my previous job, I've been tasked to create an abstraction that will make using these AWS services easier and more developer-friendly. I failed. Yet I realized how hard it is, and how many people/companies are struggling with it. That's why I've founded https://stacktape.com/ https://stacktape.com/. It makes using AWS simple to a point where any developer can efficiently use it. Let me know what you think.