We still use AWS but it's been a couple years since I've really needed to dig into it because we have very competent people who'se job that is now. My memories

We still use AWS but it's been a couple years since I've really needed to dig into it because we have very competent people who'se job that is now. My memories of having to find the right form, paste the right ID of the right server/bucket/lambda into are pretty traumatic. A TON of guesswork. Lot of what felt like duct taping things together. If you don't have a full mental model of how everything works, they're certainly not going to help you get one without reading documentation. Their documentation is for the most part top tier, but the UX makes it more important than it arguably should be. There's a difference between not handholding and just being obtuse, and I feel like so much of AWS's UI/general design philosophy falls into the latter camp.