It's astonishing how shit the cloud is compared to boring-ass pedestrian technology. For example, just logging stuff into a large text file is so much easier,

It's astonishing how shit the cloud is compared to boring-ass pedestrian technology. For example, just logging stuff into a large text file is so much easier, performant and searchable that using AWS CloudWatch, presumably written by some of the smartest programmers who ever lived. On another note I was once asked to create a big data-ish object DB, and me, knowing nothing about the domain, and a bit of benchmarking, decided to just use zstd-compressed json streams with a separate index in an sql table. I'm sure any professional would recoil at it in horror, but it could do literally gigabytes/sec retrieval or deserialization on consumer grade hardware.