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> It's very confusing As a very naive person myself, isn’t “being very confusing” one of the main points of AWS? They know they are big and nobody will get fir
by dakiol 2y ago
> It's very confusing
As a very naive person myself, isn’t “being very confusing” one of the main points of AWS? They know they are big and nobody will get fired for using AWS. So, the more confusing their products are, the more benefits for them (e.g., because you don’t know how much you will pay, because you are misusing their products, because perhaps you don’t actually need their products, etc)
So, any manager at AWS probably thinks this is all working very fine.
- mannyv 2y agoAWS is confusing because they have a lot of tools that differ in dimensions that 80% of the users don't understand. If you don't understand, for example, the difference between MySQL and PostgresQL then RDS/PostgresQL and RDS/mysql are the same. How does aurora mysql and aurora PostgresQL differ from standard RDS versions? Well, you have to actually read and understand...or watch some yoyo's YouTube video explainer. AWS is complicated because it offers a lot. Do you want a satellite downlink? AWS has that. How about a private 5G cell network? Yep. How about a distributed data store with basically fixed read latency? Well, there are a bunch of different options depending on what you want. Because you're obviously not used to being in the enterprise space, you think that confusion is what they want. They don't. In the space where people spend the big bucks being totally clear is what every good vendor strives for. You're in a multi-year relationship with these companies, and you want them to succeed. AWS isn't Oracle. Obviously there are tons of shops that will sell people the wrong thing. But then another shop comes along and takes their business (which is one project I'm involved with now - they have like some ridiculous RDS bill that shouldn't be more than $500/mo).