> I’m not actively developing on AWS, so I don’t have as much of a sense for how often they sunset APIs that they have previously dangled alluringly before unw

> I’m not actively developing on AWS, so I don’t have as much of a sense for how often they sunset APIs that they have previously dangled alluringly before unwitting developers. But I have a suspicion it’s nowhere near as often as happens at Google, and I believe wholeheartedly that this source of constant friction, and frustration, in GCP, is one of the biggest factors holding it back. AWS very rarely deprecates APIs. The last API they deprecated (that I can recall) was EC2-Classic, and that was after 15 years of service AND having a vastly better alternative (EC2 with default VPCs) that almost everyone was already using. In fact, AWS S3 is another example of a well-built, time-tested platform that passes the backwards compatibility test. AWS S3 spun up in 2006 or thereabouts. Even though the version of their most-current API schema is from *2012*, IIRC, you can still use code that you wrote back in 2006 to create stuff into buckets and store them. Same with EC2 VPCs and core networking. > Go ahead, I dare you. Follow the link and click the button. Choose “yes” to get all the default parameters and deploy the cluster to your Google Cloud project. Haha, joke’s on you; it doesn’t work. None of that shit works. It’s never tested, starts bit-rotting the minute they roll it out, and it wouldn’t surprise me if over half the click-to-deploy “solutions” (now we understand the air quotes) don’t work at all. It’s a completely embarrassing dark alley that you don’t want to wander down. Azure 100% does the same thing with their Marketplace AMIs, and I'm almost certain that AWS has a ton of quickstart guides that straight-up don't work. My guess is that a Solutions Architect or Presales Engineer wrote the solution for a small handful of customers to use, then published it for "impact" and completely forgot about it to move onto the next big problem to solve. (Guilty as charged.) However, if someone contacted Azure and AWS after running the broken quickstart asking for help, if they have enough money for support, they will absolutely get an SA to help them get up and running. Not sure about GCP. I suppose it's probably the same. > Larry & Sergey got rid of all the unhealthy snacks by 2006 though. I will always tell people about how when I worked there in Corp Eng in 2015 (worst job ever, unfortunately), all of the doors on their (many) fridges had large frosted glass films covering their bottom halves. The top half had "heatlhy" soft drinks and juices, along with seltzers and other low-calorie beverages. The bottom half? Good ol' fashioned American sodas...including diet, zero-calorie sodas! You could go absolutely crazy gorging yourself on their infinite frozen yogurt and snacks (they definitely 10000% had unhealthy snacks when I was there) twice/day, but good luck finding the Diet Dr Pepper, I guess?