[x0x0]

I dunno, I've found aws documentation to be atrocious. For example, I've had a very hard time figuring out how to do things like reattaching ebs volumes to ec2 spot instances. Maybe it's because I don't use aws much, but I get frustrated and have a hard time understanding how simple tasks need to be so complex.

I wonder how effective the Microsoft style API lockin strategy will be for aws. My personal guess is very effective.

[vonklaus]

I second this. I like digital ocean a lot for the simplicity and the community. Obviously, it takes a much more bare bones approach, but being greeted with 50 icons on your dashboard, each of them a proprietary product and cost/second pricing services makes it super hard to figure out what you even are paying, much less receiving.

[nulltype]

Yeah, AWS docs are really not very good in my limited experience. Google's docs have some pretty good parts, but they can be hard to find. Authentication is still kind of confusing on GCP.

[univalent]

Yes, it isn't perfect but they have more samples for every language, tutorials etc. They also have quite a few training videos etc. online.